Word: growth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...service which such an institution can render to scholarship as well as the University. This list of more than 230 books, dealing with many subjects all intimately connected with the teaching and research carried on at the University, indicates more clearly than could any direct statement the healthy growth of productive scholarship at Harvard. The distribution of this list is but one of the many ways in which the Harvard Press is making this scholarship known throughout the world...
...recent proposal of the Technology Alumni Council for the establishment of a "bureau for furnishing without substantial expense such technical information and advice as the State and the public may require" is of the greatest interest. Not only is the plan of great concern to Harvard through the pending growth of the "joint faculty" with Technology, but it is a suggestion thought with illimitable possibilities for Harvard herself...
...chemistry, and through the growing realization that the services of a chemist can be put to good use in a large proportion of industrial processes whether primarily chemical or not. While manufacturing chemistry in America is still behind that of Germany in most respects, yet the present rate of growth of purely chemical industries in America promises well for the future. In particular the cheap production of electrical energy at Niagara Falls has made possible the founding of a large group of electro-chemical processes, in which such substances as caustic soda, chlorine, aluminum, carborundum and graphite are produced...
There comes a stage in the growth of Institutions when increasing complexity requires specialized organization. That stage the Forestry School has reached. The two departments into which it would naturally be divided, however, fall into closer association with already existing graduate schools than with one another; and as a result the Forestry School as a distinct entity will cease to exist...
...personal views to warrant a special magazine devoted to music. The leading article on "Opera and the City" by S. F. Damon, is indicative of the serious attitude which Harvard men take in regard to the present condition of opera in Boston and the question of its steady growth or gradual decline. It is an open secret that the establishment of this art here in our midst has not, in certain respects, fulfilled the generous aims of the founders, many of whom are Harvard graduates. Until the Boston Opera can win for itself by reasonable prices and well-balanced renditions...