Word: gradualism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan has been working with measurable success, sufficient, at least, to continue to accord it the highest hopes. Several more years will do much to stabilize the college record, then begin to demonstrate the record in the world. Then, and then only, will definite conclusions be warranted. Meanwhile the gradual fruition of this novel and daring educational conception can be watched with intense interest...
...struggle between departments, no question of juris diction. There will be only one ultimate authority in all economic questions Party Comrade Göring." Significance. No immediate change in German economic policy was foreshadowed by this spectacular upping of Göring, but it served to emphasize the gradual drift of Der Führer away from the Party's economic radicals: Dr. Goebbels, Dr. Richard-Walther Darre, Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Robert Ley. Leader of the German Labor Front and Herr Wilhelm Keppler, an engineer who has had for three years the peculiar title of "Personal Economic Adviser...
...secret, died soon after All this was the substance of a matter-of-fact novel that won the Dodd, Mead Pictorial Review $10,000 prize contest las week. Simple to the point of bleakness ir its plot, The Old Ashburn Place goes or to recount Charlie's gradual resignation before the complexities of life, his reconciliation with his brother, the accidental death of the erring wife that saved her from disgrace, Charlie's graceful stepping-aside to permit Morris to marry again...
...this "reassembly," have, doubtless, already been astonished and perhaps somewhat bewildered at the almost complete revision, during the past twenty-five years, of the educational methods and policies of Harvard College. General examinations, the Tutorial System, the Reading Periods, the House Plan, Harvard College Prize Fellowships, and the gradual reduction of compulsory attendance at classes--all these educational innovations were unknown twenty-five years ago. Yet they are integral parts of the undergraduate life of Harvard today...
...House Plan and the Tutorial System, have been crystallized under President Conant, and their possibilities as well as their limitations are becoming increasingly distinct. Changes will be necessary. But only time will show which ones, and the Administration has shown its competency by refraining from violent altercations until the gradual breaking-in process over a period of years has shown where the fundamental weaknesses exist...