Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Progress...
...suggestions. In the first place, I am afraid that you do not always seize upon the most significant developments. But this defect will probably be corrected as you acquire familiarity with your subject. Then I have a more important suggestion: why do you not call your department PROGRESS, rather than FASHION? The latter is an unpleasant word carrying a hint of inconsequence, whim, frivolousness and lack of permanence. Should not the department confine itself to the valuable, enduring and practical? And if this is true, should it nor be called PROGRESS...
Subscriber Lee's suggestion is good, is worth well over $10. Henceforth the new department FASHIONS shall be known as PROGRESS...
...Rightly understood, there is no more sensational story of human experience. Society is made up of constants and variables. The variables attract us by their contrasts and are always appearing in the headlines. But the constants always predominate, always push ahead in the march of progress...
...Fund Council's work was made following the first stated meeting and dinner of the Harvard Fund Council at the Harvard Club of Boston Sunday night, when the activities of the Council for the past year were reviewed, and plans for the future were discussed. General satisfaction with the progress made early this year, and proposals for the continuance and extension of the Council's success, were reported by D. T. W. McCord '21, executive secretary of the Council, as characterizing the meeting...