Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rowing, but to whom ultimately every decision of importance should be taken. Percy Haughton has filled that place splendidly in one sport. As head coach he has directed a continuous policy for Freshman football and second-team football. He has been able to outline the work and control the progress of those teams as a part of his University system. Often this has allowed men of in experience to act most ably as coaches where without the supervision of a responsible head the same men would have groped in the dark. Autocrat as he is supposed...
Freshman managers were at work yesterday in clearing the Charles River office, and considerable progress was made. Tugs broke up the ice a few days ago, and the crews will in all probability be out on the water the last of this week...
...Cannon '96, who spoke second, showed the strides lately taken by the medical profession. "Experiments and tests are the direct factors of medical progress," said Dr. Cannon. He then explained how medical experiment brought about the results previously explained by Dr. Shattuck. "There are yet many obscurities in medical knowledge," said Dr. Cannon; "for instance, scarlet fever, measles, infantile paralysis, and cancer afford wide fields of investigation. The average physician may not make worldwide discoveries, yet, like a picture puzzle, every addition is needed. There is a certain thrill that comes to a man when he makes a great discovery...
...music, we need this enthusiasm today as in nothing else. For in music in this country our only very appreciable progress has been professional. professionalized music, bought and sold like any other commodity of luxury or convenience, has been the brand with which we are all familiar. We hear of exorbitant prices paid to the great singers. We know the tremendous cost of maintaining opera, or a symphony orchestra; and on the other hand, we hear about the fortune made by a clever writer of popular songs. Our basis of the value of music is for the most part...
...Some progress has been made already in de-Latinizing some courses in History, Philosophy, Fine Arts, etc., but there should be no stopping of the process. If any fact concerning the ancient Greeks or Romans is worth acquiring, it is worth acquiring equally by those who have or have not studied the languages in which the facts have been handed down...