Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Progress in the development of a schedule for the squash team is not so definite as no league is in view. Already, however, invitations from the Yale, Princeton, and Harvard Clubs of New York City have been received asking for matches...
...general. The "superior" type is, fortunately, becoming relatively scarce. An examination of the names of men of achievement appearing in "Who's Who" shows that only one uneducated child in one hundred and fifty thousand is able to accomplish anything that entitles him to honorable mention in the progress of his state; that children with common-school education win out four times as often; that a high school diploma gives them eighty-seven times as much chance--while a college education makes them eight hundred times as likely to succeed. But the fact that such incidents as the above...
...business of our elected representatives to find a way out of our difficulties--not merely to start long-winded investigations which accomplish nothing. As never before the nation looks to Congress to lead us out of the darkness of disorder into the clear sunshine of peace and progress...
Throughout the month of practice there will be weekly competitions in all events to show what progress has been made. At the end of that time, according to the present plans a cup will be given to the man in each event who gives evidence of the most improvement during the practice...
...salary of the teacher today has risen to $689, but that is a pitiful sum to pay for the work that any teacher ought to do, even in the lower grades of a remote rural school. That administrative salaries in education are often large does not help in national progress...