Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moral encouragement if not tangible aid to the plight of 35,000 unemployed U. S. orchestra musicians (TIME, May 20), was contained in a remark made publicly last week in Paris by Director Serge Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Said he: "A phenomenal musical renaissance is in progress in the U. S. Americans have the active temperament which, instead of retarding their artistic perceptions, has been the salvation of America's artistic development. They have stimulated orchestral advancement, just as they have created immense business enterprises. The American people have an inordinate genius for growth...
...Progress in aviation is not up to the mark. About all that has been done thus far has been to prove that...
President of Harvard and we find in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin an appreciative summing-up of his accomplishments during the period. President Lowell's leading interest when he assumed command in 1909 was in quality of performance. With this key to his administration one can follow Harvard's progress since then to the institution that it is today. Socially he has worked during these ten years towards an all-around undergraduate life which began with good conditions for the Freshmen, carried through the athletic and other student interests, and came to a climax in the House Plan, which Edward...
...Barrett Wendell Prize, awarded to Lloyd, is a book prize awarded each year to the member of the Sophomore Class concentrating in History and Literature who has made the most-notable progress during the year...
...observed experiments and progress in Switzerland. He formed an International Niagara Commission, with Sir William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin) of Glasgow for chairman, to act as judges in a prize competition for the design of the Niagara generators. From the first, the Commission advised against Alternating Current, but the man who designed the prize-winning generator, a Scottish professor named George Forbes, joined Mr. Adams in the belief that Alternating would prove feasible...