Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This award was made for progress in research which involves the application of the methods of physical chemistry to the problems of organic chemistry. Bartlett explained, "This approach proved valuable in checking certain much-debated theories concerning molecular rearrangements and additional reactions of halogens to carbon compounds...
Most of the credit for recent progress must go to President Conant and two of its educational innovations. The American History Plan is designed to promote an integrated conception of the civilization which America as a whole has produced. Still more important is the National Scholarship Plan, which brings to Harvard prime academic products of the South, Middle West, and Far West. Its benefits are twofold: it increases the scope of Harvard's services to the country, and its strengthens college life by contacts with new and varied points of view. President Conant has laid down an excellent highway...
Both agreed that working newspapermen must organize, but that agreement did not soften Mr. Robb's criticism of the Guild's "cockeyed"' tactics. He warned the Guild it was making "slow progress" because: 1) it "gives more thought to antagonizing publishers than it doe.s toward promotion of the objects for which it was formed"; 2) it "attempts to discredit all advertising" and boycotts circulation of struck papers; 3) its Guild shop makes "the possession of a Guild card the prime requisite to a man's right to work on a newspaper-more important than character...
...Paley read, quickly and nervously: "The broadcasting industry should unite on a definite program of service, of progress and of protection. . . . The newly organized National Association of broadcasters [which last fortnight picked Louisville Newspaperman Mark Foster Ethridge as temporary president] . . . may well be the instrument. . . . Broadcasting, of course, should be subject to all legislation and regulation governing business in general [but] . . . regulation should be limited to the bare necessities of the case and should never go beyond that. . . . There should be a minimum of regulation...
Realizing that activity is an integral part of education, our members participate in the general life of the university, not only for the benefits it offers today, but with the added desire to see it progress to meet the changing needs of our generation...