Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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During the summer extensive building operations have been underway. Progress on the new building presented to the Sheffield Scientific School by Mr. F. W. Vanderbilt has been somewhat retarded by labor troubles, but the building will probably be completed within a few weeks. Work on the new Ross Library is progressing steadily, but the date of its completion is still some months distant. Other improvements now in process of construction are the alteration of the basement of Dwight Hall into a lunch room with recreation rooms attached, the additional story which is being put on Kent Laboratory, and an addition...
...notable speech President Eliot spoke of freedom as the condition necessary to the progress of society, and pointed out its dangers and its opportunities in college life. A striking phenomenon of our day, he said, is the distrust of freedom that is manifesting itself in all walks of life. It is especially manifest in our educational institutions, for there is no moment when a young man is in a position of more freedom than when he leaves home and enters College. He can use or abuse that freedom, he can use it for good or bad purposes. It is there...
...originator of the "case-system" of teaching law, which has now supplanted the older text-book method in nearly all the large law schools in the country. The accomplishment of this work makes him one of the foremost of the men to whom the great advance and progress of the University during the last thirty-five years...
...circular has been sent to all graduates of the College and the Lawrence Scientific School requesting contributions to the fund, and asking all who desire to contribute to send their subscriptions as soon as possible to Mr. E. W. Atkinson '81, chairman of the committee. A report of the progress of the work, stating the number of subscriptions received, as well as the total amount subscribed, will be made on Commencement Day. The committee in charge is composed of 56 representatives chosen in part from the class of 1860 and partly from classes from 1866 to 1901 inclusive...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Progress of Research in the Ultra-Violet." Dr. Lyman. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...