Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite enormous progress made of late toward the preservation of a healthy physical condition in the university, some steps remain untried, some barriers intact, some problems unsolved. Harvard has aimed high. In providing for new gymnasiums, swimming pools and compulsory athletics for freshmen the college has advanced far, yet shadowed by such achievement the problem of sugar bowls in the Freshman Dormitories has been sadly neglected. Not only residents but visitors have observed the scarcity of sugar bowls, particularly in Smith Halls, and the vile condition of the remaining minority. The situation has reached a crisis; it demands instant action...
...which every large university must remedy in its own way. It remains to be seen whether. Yale can do away with the very definite social disadvantages which President Angell cites in his address and can maintain its traditional educational standards, at the same time adding impetus to personal intellectual progress. Always conservative and with an eye to the college as a unit. Yale is in a position to conduct an experiment all the more significant be cause of the trend of the times in presenting problems which have to be met in an entirely original manner...
...consecrate our professional knowledge and skill to the advancement of human welfare, safety and progress...
...Ohio, and the Democratic Ticket. . . . I am conscious of the fact that my personal political success is of no consequence to the public. Whether I win or lose makes no difference in the forward march of Ohio, unless I can make a definite and substantial contribution to her progress...
Criticisms such as these challenge the value of usages well grounded on tradition and custom in many of our schools. But if any progress is to be made in improving the present system, it must be by the elimination of just such deep-set evils. President Lowell has rendered valuable service to the cause of American education by his penetrating attack on them...