Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner affords the guests opportunity to discuss means of co-operation for the furthering of the physical education of undergraduates. W. J. Bingham '16, director of athletics, declared Saturday that the banquets in the past have contributed materially to progress toward athletics and proper physical training for the whole student body...
...ought to kneel to worship the brave hero who should defy the current cake of though. Someone has said,--"Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread", but I question whether the world should ever have advanced had we never had these so called "fools". A study of historical progress might seem then, according to this thesis, a study of fools in chronological order beginning with Socrates and following through with Erasmus, Copernicus, Bruno, Sir Thomas Moore, Tolstoy, Darwin, and last, but tritely enough, not least, Stephen Vincent Benet...
...since the publication of "Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children" has there been anything so human, so intimate, so revealing of the real Roosevelt. This record of childish pranks, of boyhood camping and hunting trips, of progress in athletics and studies while a student at Harvard, form the self-told story of a great personality, from nursery days to early manhood...
...Bride's Progress you can find whatever meaning you are seeking. The married man of years, steeped in maturity, will find in wholesome social-comedy style a clever, epigrammatic bit of marriage philosophy. The unmarried college student will find a daring piece of ironic comedy, a novel of the most risque caliber...
...studies compel him to be away from home on Election Day should not be enough to deprive him of the franchise, and the danger, from fraud is no greater when the ballot is sent by mail than when it is deposited in a box at the booths. Much progress has already been made in a steadily increasing number of states towards the elimination of this injustice, and before the next presidential election comes around it should be possible for every student of age at Harvard to indicate his choice...