Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...positive drawbacks to Harvard, either because they support projects which actually embarrass the University, or because the ends to which they are devoted are as useless as iron rhinoceri. On the other hand, mobile funds are necessary if Harvard is to play its part in educational and scientific progress. Under this second category comes a final point, that unrestricted grants are needed for an integration of higher learning...
BESSEMER, Ala. -- Approximately 350 men were idle today after Works Progress Administration employs constructing a storm sower in Roosevelt Park struck in protest of an order that a worker must both load and push his wheelbarrow. Previously each wheelbarrow had a crew of two men--one to load and one to push...
...They Spell? If Progressive educators are idealists, they are at least shrewd enough not to give their opponents tangible ammunition. They do not leave their pupils' progress in reading, writing and reckoning entirely to projects and chance but come down on their youngsters with concentrated individual drill in those subjects when necessary. They have also given much attention of late to testing their pupils, giving an accounting of Progressive Education's results...
...satisfactory formula has been devised by the Supreme Court for holding administrative discretion within limits appropriate both to progress," DeNike said...
After several years during which time the cases of more than 75 students have been studied, Professor Packard and his consultants, Dr. Rudelph Oxgood '32, both graduates of the Medical School, have concluded that one of the greatest obstacles to a student's progress toward good speech is his own lack of determined effort...