Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...forcible way the view that Bergson's philosophy is not the best food for Americans of today. Bergson is a mystic, and America needs dogmatism. Americans "need to be taught how to think, and not, as M. Bergson would teach them, how to feel." "The intellectual, moral, and social progress which the American civilization is bound to make its own, as a crown to the material progress it has achieved, must be won of thought...
...meeting of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America attracts instead of seven, twenty-seven colleges sending in over twelve hundred entries. The men come from every part of the country and this year the west is unusually prominent. Nothing could demonstrate more clearly than this the rapid progress and development of intercollegiate athletics in the last few years unless indeed, it be the fact that no less than 18 of the 23 present records have been made or equalled since...
...Progress in Leiter Cup Series...
...Athletics for the Average Student, Mr. Reynolds suggests compulsory physical examinations at the beginning and end of the College course, with sufficient facilities for everyone to enjoy whole some exercise, as the basis for demanding a substantial improvement in physique before graduation. The progress in physical education in other colleges is summarized apparently from the catalogues of the institutions investigated. We would be interested to know more definitely the effect of these various systems on the students themselves, and of the actual organization of the Physical Education Department at Berkeley or Amherst...
...type of business activity and to that will add special training in practical experience of Chamber of Commerce operation, which will be secured in connection with the Boston Chamber of Commerce and similar bodies in this vicinity. The Boston Chamber has pledged its support, and work is now in progress in securing the co-operation of other bodies and in finding openings in which the men taking the course can have actual practice under working conditions...