Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spectacular exhibit is to be held in the new Technology buildings upon their completion in June. This exhibit, "Fifty Years of Technology," has been arranged under the direction of Mr. J. P. Munroe of Technology, and will attempt to show in display Technology's progress during the last half-century...
Captain Schindel, U.S.A., accompanied the Regiment and was very favorably impressed with the skill shown by individual members. He complimented the Regiment on the marked progress which it had made, and spoke of the valuable contribution which such an organization makes toward American preparedness...
...Technology men, past and present, in Huntington Hall, for a farewell ceremony to the Rogers Building. The entire body will then march to the embankment, where it will be met by a small fleet of motor boats. This crossing of the river will be made an aquatic jubilee. Progress in naval construction will be shown by the latest models of many types of vessels. It is planned to have torpedo boat destroyers and submarines in manoeuvres in the Basin, working in conjunction with fast motor boats and hydroplanes, which will aim to show the utility of small craft in time...
Following this there will be an exhibition in the new buildings, showing the progress in sciences and applied arts during the past fifty years. An unusual feature will be the demonstration of the great number of branches of science and applied knowledge necessary for the completion of a huge undertaking like a modern skyscraper or battleship. There will be diagrams showing the technical knowledge necessary for the construction of each part. Early models of the telephone, telegraph, and other important inventions will be shown, and with each will be given the part played by Technology in its perfection...
...thinking public agrees that statistical investigation of country and world economics is important to progress. But the question arises, who shall conduct this experimentation? Under an ideal system the scientist, not the politician, would direct the work. For past history in the physical and agricultural departments of the United States reveals the presence of graft and the spoils system...