Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of investigating the settlements, reporting their needs, and the progress or failure of our men was most efficiently taken care of by the committee of superintendents. Excellent reports were handed in, covering every settlement with which we deal. These reports gave not only the list of men whom we had enlisted at the settlements, but also all others doing social service in any way connected with the University. In most cases a very helpful criticism of the way in which the work of the club was administered was given also...
...many and so varied are the activities in the University, that very often men in one department lose sight completely of the work carried on in other departments. It is therefore often worth while to call to mind the progress which is being made in certain advanced fields, usually not familiar to the undergraduate. Doubtless few Harvard men know, for instance, that the Physics Department is one of the most active and progressive in the country, and that its work has attracted international attention...
...progress of the department has been steady, and at present the laboratory is engaged in research work of interest to the whole scientific world. The erection of the Cruft High Tension Laboratory has marked a departure into a new field of investigation. Experiments with the wireless telephone, begun a few years ago by Professor Peirce and Dr. Chaffee, have been resumed recently. Moreover, direct wireless communication with Berlin has lately been established...
...conference should start with no presuppositions other than a sincere desire to discover the true causes for the present war and the means of averting similar conflicts in the future. Working on these premises, under the leadership of such sound thinkers as have, agreed to attend the meetings, some progress at least should be made toward the discovery of means for the peaceful settlement of international disputes. Of hardly secondary importance to agreement upon the form which the promotion of international justice and world organization should take, is the necessity for educating public opinion at large in a truer understanding...
...assistants --although men of scholarly promise--are appointed rather for their high records than for their ability to instruct. The tendency is to treat assistantships merely as graduate scholarships, given to aid men who are doing research work for higher degrees; and the professor is more concerned with the progress of that research work than with the teaching which the assistant does...