Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...School team at Concord this afternoon. The team has been practicing at the Arena since its game with Hackley School last Saturday and has shown considerable improvement. In view of the severe handicap under which the seven has been working for lack of ice, it has made remarkable progress, and will doubtless put up a hard game against St. Paul...
...case of a large number of the men, the early years of their life after graduation, were spent in turning from one occupation to another to find that for which they were best fitted and then settling down to some steady occupation in which they made rapid progress...
...University team began the season with excellent prospects, having several good men as veterans and some first class material from last year's Freshmen to draw on. The work was rather ragged in the early games, but of late has shown tremendous progress, culminating in the Princeton game in which the team proved that it could play an uphill fight...
...obvious that it is better to have many books than a few books that there is need of commenting on the dangers of our privilege. There was a time when no man could be great unless he had read nothing more than Pilgrims Progress, the Bible, and Shakespeare's Plays. That time has gone, and the student now a days instead of trying to get a sympathy with a few well-known authors, boasts that he is a pioneer and seeks to achieve an education by reading books by unknown authors. The desire to discover more in formation...
...next article is "The Growing Science of Efficiency," by Holbrook F. J. Porter, reprinted from "Business America," October number. He gives a readable account of the meaning, scope, and progress of a subject now justly arousing great interest. Like the general run of such writers and speakers, he seems entirely oblivious of the fact that the science of efficiency has a field of application in the field of what the economists call the distribution of wealth, as well as in the production of wealth. We can already produce far more efficiently--poorly as we may do it still--than...