Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...progress of the world! Gradually we have become enlightened concerning the evils which have held us in their yoke and which have surely brought us to the brink of ruin and destruction, while civilization and progress have been unknown. Indeed, it is high time to stay our backward course, and, by suppressing evils, start the world forward...
...greater interest in track here, for Harvard has excellent facilities and able coaches, besides having the fastest cinder track in America. With such splendid opportunities, every normal undergraduate, who is not suited, either by his physique or by his adaptability, for another major sport, should not be backward about making use of the two legs with which he is endowed...
...from the combination of these factors that we must see that socialism has passed beyond the realm of theory and has become a movement. Though there are many who believe it a step backward, there are no men, however, who can afford to disregard it as the creation of rattle-brain theorists. There are great changes in the air which will mean a new society. They may be socialistic and they may be evolutions which will stop far short of that goal. But they are changes which must enlist the active thought of every man who will aid in creating...
...world is swinging backward in a cycle of brutality...
Other universities, however, have been backward in canceling their intercollegiate athletics, and while they have been making extensive military preparations have also continued their regular athletic activities...