Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussion of the agrarian reform in Mexico. Its author is Dr. Ramon Beteta, Mexico's energetic Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs. He presents the government policy of forced land redistribution, inaugurated in 1915, as a "restorative" development--"giving Mexico back to the Mexicans." Compared with the steady progress of the preceding enclosure movement in Spain as well as in Mexico, the peasant emancipation under Tsar Alexander II is bound to appear in a most favorable light...
...explained how in a series of seven conferences since 1889 these nations of North and South America have tried to promote common interests. The great importance of these meetings is that they "determine the progress of Pan Americanism...
...plan: Young medical graduates who want to become specialists by 1940 have been unable to get medical faculties and facilities to teach them all that the twelve examining boards want them to know. There, his Commission of Graduate Medical Education, formed last December, impatient with the slow progress made by the A. M. A., appointed Wisconsin General Hospital Superintendent Robin Carl Buerki, onetime president of the American Hospital Association, to get educators and hospital administrators to provide the higher medical learning required. Dr. Buerki promised to do the job by 1942 if the regents of the University of Wisconsin, which...
Last night's meeting of the Harvard Congress, if viewed in the light of the ovation given the Marquessa de Cienfuegos the night before, leaves the student of social progress in a rather glum frame of mind. For the Young Conservatives played to standing room only for a speech they had taken pains to label as publicity-seeking propaganda, whereas the Congress, meeting ostensiby to Advance and Perpetuate Learning, drew a crowd of fourteen by actual count...
...stressing the influence of symbols Arnold does not, as has been claimed, fail to see the enormous strides men have made through rational thinking. He realizes that the progress of physical science has been aided by the existence of a symbol like "men in white" which, in conflicts between tradition and modern methods, has thrown the balance in favor of rational thinking. Arnold's point is that there has been a delay in developing a symbol in the field of social science that enables rational thinking to break down the logictight compartments of a Jeffersonian Democrat...