Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bulletin is the name of a new bi-monthly official publication of the University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to announce new courses, progress made in original research and other such items of information as may be of general interest...
...Brokaw Building fair progress has been made, when the small number of men at work is taken into consideration. The entire building, including the swimming pool, is under cover, and the eupola on the main building is about completed and ready for the slate. The upper flooring is finished and the walls are ready for lathing and plastering...
...study the books of the day that treat of their profession. The superintendent, on the other hand, is the final authority, or ought to be, in all matters of dispute from the scholars up to the principals. They should have control of granting teachers' certificates and should know what progress is being made in every school under their charge. The superintendent ought finally to be a man of keen judgment and a man of conviction. A lively discussion followed on the questions suggested by these two papers...
There is a contest, in progress in the Connecticut legislature to stay and to divert the state's annual grant of $20,000 to the Yale Scientific School...
...organism not only is, but is passing away from what is. Moreover, nothing can exist in only itself. Its purpose is ministry, and by ministry it preserves itself. Self preservation would be self destruction. So it is with the "independent" thinker, who refuses to follow the universal theory. Mental progress means to part with our own pet whims and obey the universal theories and principles...