Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...speak in familiar terms in this the family circle of our Alma Mater, I would say that not the least interesting thing about this work, to my mind, is the revelation of the growth of the author. A comparison of this with his earlier works show a tremendous progress towards what I should call the modern and public as distinct from the old and individualistic point of view. Twenty-five years ago Professor Taussig would probably have accepted, with but slight modification, the view of the laissezfaire school that the State has little or nothing to do with economics...
...attention to one group, but at the same time he is obliged to distribute the remainder of his work over other fields. Moreover, our system includes the element of continuity of subjects without making it necessary to confine one's course of study to a single line of progress. The group system is invaluable in that it promotes concentration to a certain degree, but an added asset of out system is that it also domands a considerable degree of distribution of study...
...size of the squad has been limited this year because the new material was given a thorough try-out in the fall practice, and much more rapid progress in the development of the team can be made with a small number of men working in the Cage. Although practice began last year on January 31, this year's season including the five weeks of fall work will be fully as long, and, split up as it is, should prove more advantageous...
...what is it that makes this era, that that keeps it alive? It is the demagogues, the men who are crafty, frequently selfish and regardless of public opinion, but always alive,--very much alive. The are the ones who are looking upwards and ahead. It is the tide of progress that has brought the Radical to the fore. There has been a wave of Materialism; there has been a wave of Populism; but each of these waves has helped and not retarded the great wave of Radicalism...
...large. The council intends to systematize and simplify social service researches by publishing a bulletin, giving an account of the council's current activities and of the material collected, to which other societies may refer, thus avoiding the duplication of work which is now such an impediment to progress. President Lowell has welcomed the plan very heartily, and Harvard has given a room in Emerson Hall to be used as an office. The officers of the council are: president, Dean Edwin F. Gay, of the Graduate School of Business Administration; director, Robert F. Foerster H.'06, instructor in ethics; chairman...