Word: growths
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...figures can show the material progress of the University enrollment statistics published today reflect a satisfactory condition of growth in nearly every department. In the College the entering class justifies the expectations as to numbers to which the entrance examinations gave rise, and when Freshman classes are large the welfare of other undergraduate and graduate departments is assured for future years. It is a regrettable fact that through many early graduations and some failures by the way the Senior class is but little more than half as large as the Freshman class. To the impartial mind it would seem that...
...graduate schools which are still in a comparatively new and experimental stage, the schools of Applied Science and of Business Administration, increased numbers make a prosperous outlook. The former may expect much greater growth now that the McKay fund is becoming available for improvements in instruction and equipment, but both are still essentially on trial and only the record of their graduates in professional and business life can be accepted as final evidences of success. Andover Seminary, which in numbers still occupies such an humble place, is yet becoming more firmly established in its new home and may confidently look...
...referred to as one of the great factors in the growth of nations and in the advancement of civilization. By competitive struggle alone are nations, as well as individuals, compelled to seek further means of strength and better commodities for their own use. War he assigned as the cause of the tremendous growth of the United States...
Before entering upon the main part of his address, Professor Meyer sketched the growth of scholarship in America, especially at Harvard, from the German standpoint. From a comparatively minor position in scholastic rank one hundred years ago, Harvard has risen to the first place among American institutions and to one of the highest positions among the world's greatest universities...
...They have given us a freedom of movement needed for further progress. May we not say of the extreme elective system what Edmond Sherer said of democracy; that it is but one stage in an irresistible march toward an unknown goal? Progress means change, and every time of growth is a transitional era; but in a peculiar degree the present state of the American college bears the marks of a period of transition. This is seen in the comparatively small estimation in which high proficiency in college studies is held both by undergraduates and by the public at large...