Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have entered into the great world-war. Behind must now lie that life of cultural progress which seemed to us only a few months ago our highest goal. It is to be expected that many men will be sent across the seas to fight with the allied nations upon the fields of France. No one should narrowly feel that he is fighting the battles of an alien people...
...prescribed training, but now the decision has finally been made that we have been waiting for. The result must be an immediate increase in the hours of training. Every man wants to be an officer as soon as possible, as every officer will be needed. The quickest progress can only be made by these future officers when their entire attention can be concentrated on military work. Scholastic, social, and all other interests must be discarded and the Harvard men in the R. O. T. C. must be allowed to give their unhampered efforts to the serious work at hand...
...annual report of the University Library indicates rapid growth under increasing difficulties. More than forty thousand volumes have been added to its shelves, swelling the total to nearly two million and placing it among the greatest collections of books in the world. Yet with this encouraging progress there has not come the corresponding increase of dependable resources which are necessary in carrying forward the work from year to year...
...Progress toward the summum bonum in education has been slow during the last five thousand years but nevertheless it has been encouraging. We may trust the time will soon come when the great high schools of the country will give courses in merchandising, emphasizing the practical side of it, of course, as for example, teaching the eager youth of the country how to dispose of dry goods in the basement for five dollars that goes begging on the first floor at two dollars and fifty cents...
...from the past and confine our efforts to the narrow limits of material advantage. But here the critics are unfair. One of the cardinal requisites of the useful man is an intimate knowledge of the past. He must have in mind an historical background in order to distinguish real progress from false and estimate the value of modern movements. Without this alert consciousness of the historical evolution of morals and customs, society would resemble the man who has lost his memory...