Word: growth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that Harvard has always progressed at a smooth rather than a jerky rate. Ever on the lookout and with committees always investigating and suggesting improvements, the University has grown slowly but continuously. In this way Harvard, under President Eliot, faced the period of readjustment after the Civil War. The growth of the graduate schools, the liberalizing of the requirements for the degree of "A. B.", and the introduction of the elective system, came gradually. Since their adoption here every one of these changes has been accepted by the collegiate world...
...printing a communication on the Humphries meeting by the undersigned in last Saturday's CRIMSON an error was made which seriously misrepresents our position. In the sentence "Some of us do fear lest the suppression in America of free speech and check of the 'evolutionary' growth of industrial democracy, if continued, may lead to the same pitiful misery, violence and destruction as has accompanied the Russian Revolution," you printed the word "revolutionary" in place of our word "evolutionary...
...Czar to those who condemn it. None of us maintain that the program and methods of Lenine and Trotzky are "Applicable to the traditions, institutions and aims of this country." Some of us do fear lest the suppression in America of free speech and check of the revolutionary growth of industrial democracy, if continued, may lead to the same pitiful misery, violence and destruction as has accompanied the Russian Revolution...
...Levy-Bruhl. Professors C. H. Haskins LL. D., '08, R. H. Lord '06, and A. C. Coolidge '87, of the History Department of the University, will be the three lecturers who will discuss the problem of peace. Professor E. B. Hill of the Music Department will speak on "The Growth of Modern French Music." The other lectures will be delivered by Talcott Williams, professor emeritus of journalism and late director of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, who will discuss "the Ottoman Empire," and Professor Maurice de Wulf of the University of Louvain, who will speak on "Monastic Life...
...sheer rapid growth few institutions in the country, and assuredly none in New England, have a record comparable to Boston University's. In a single year enrolment has almost doubled. B. U. has been adding new departments with considerable regularity, and the result is that today it has about 5400 students. These figures include the registration in the popular night courses given in the College of Business Administration. This fall the university has opened a college of secretarial science, a school of education and a department of religious education and social service...