Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While tutorial work may in general conduce to greater progress than attendance at lectures in such fields as history, philosophy, or even literature, the reverse is certainly true of many other departments of study. Lectures in the fine arts, laboratory work in the sciences, discussion groups in mathematics or economic theory can scarcely be supplanted by independent reading on the part of the student...
...necessary. What the relations of the Master and undergraduates will be, how the residents will be chosen, whether or not Freshmen will be included, and a host of similar questions all must be answered before a definite conception of the Plan can be formed to match the physical progress being made down by the Charles...
...health work for students was continued during the year and complete physical examinations were made of the members of the two lower classes. Numerous physical defects which would interfere with their progress in their professional work were discovered and in most instances corrected. Eye defects were found to be quite common. The correction of visual defects occurring in our students is of great importance in so exacting a requirement on vision as dentistry. An effort is being made to study the effect on scholarship of the correction of these physical defects...
Collector Hamilton has aided in the education of perhaps 100 school and college boys. They never know the identity of their benefactor, all transactions take place through a third party. Once a month they write letters describing their progress to Collector Hamilton, addressing him as "Dear Friend...
...Journal, Newspaperman Guck was sent to San Francisco to general-manage the Hearst Examiner there. Now he is considered ready and able to represent the Hearst interests in Chicago, fabulous city of world's fairs, gang-wars, tallest buildings, youngest university presidents, blatant mayors, model department stores, bursting progress. Having made a mark on both edges of the continent he now returns to the middle, where he was born 52 years ago. Chicagoans will find him cheerful (Christian Science), fond of checked suits...