Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following such introductory lists, the main body of the essay should be a readable narrative of the high spots of the season, covering not only the races but other matters such as the progress of the coaching system, amusing or unusual incidents during the training season or the races themselves, and any new developments or experiments in equipment...
...with $2000 or more will be free to pursue such studies at Harvard as might be helpful in their work. In this way the cultural background so essential to acurate reporting and worthwhile comment will be afforded at least a few men. Although this may lead to some progress, the whole plan is still "frankly experimental," as Dr. Conant has reported, and it may be changed from year to year until the most effective arrangement is reached...
...department and daring to interpret sickness in terms of underlying anxiety and worry, Dr. Bock in his Report to the President has shown his insight into student problems and has gone far in implying a solution to the factors of modern civilization as they threaten to impede Harvard's progress. His words are proof, if proof be needed, that the University's attitude toward the undergraduate must change with changing times if he is fully to benefit from what the College has to offer...
...University's present head. President Conant has made it plain that he desires a return to the "liberal arts"; he has spent much effort to develop a program whereby both the student and the public may become conscious of our American civilization and interested in its general progress. It does not seem that neither he nor even the Harvard student wants the college to become a school for learning only the principles of good citizenship or the trades. It should not be the business of Harvard College to train students for jobs...
...long as trouble is abroad in the world in its present proportions, the incidence of all kinds of illness will remain high. In addition to specific physical disorders, we cannot escape the mounting problems concerned with the total personality of young men. These problems may interfere with normal intellectual progress, with development of sound social reactions, and defeat a man's capacity to determine even the choice of a career...