Word: onwardness
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...campaign song of the G. 0. P., as announced last week in a speech at Boston by U. S. Representative Franklin W. Fort of New Jersey, Secretary of the Republican National Committee, will be to the tune of "Onward, Christian Soldiers." Mr. Fort did not state whether the words of the hymn would be sung, or a special lyric substituted. The words of "Onward, Christian Soldiers" (first verse) are as follows...
...being a mere attempt to cover a vast and familiar ground more rapidly than is predecessors, this book represents rather an interpretation of history. The author conceives of history not as a landscape dominated by a few peaks of great attainments, but as a stream which is flowing constantly onward, running faster, perhaps, at some times than at others. Evolution is the central theme of his book, and he selects for treatment those salient facts which testify to the evolutionary process. This choice limits the range of factual discussion, and the principle governing the choice distinguishes the book from other...
...this morning his weary marathoners will have covered approximately 1800 miles, or a little over half their trek. They are now in the state of Missouri, having plodded steadily onward ever since the fourth of March. It is hardly to be supposed that the reading public, long-suffering as it is, could have stomached a daily blurb as to the progress of the caravan. This, too, is as the A B C to Mr. Pyle. But only wait until the final sprint breaks loose somewhere in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, and the handful of hardy soles left cuts loose. Then...
...intelligent humility of this utterance is in keeping with the character of Dr. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed. Gracious, energetic, perhaps a trifle over-imbued with the onward-and-upward-and-quickly attitude of his University, Dr. Goodspeed is a type infinitely removed from the majestically conservative Roman Catholic, Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet. They have, however, a common quality. To both belongs the same shining desire; both share the same endless and splendid crusade to discover, scuffled somewhere in a dusty place, God's word in a golden grail...
Among the dogmas of the intelligentsia, from earliest times onward, has stood the belief that opera was not to be done in English; and this belief has very naturally been the parent of a widespread conviction, that opera, in America, is an entertainment only for the elite. Mr. George Eastman, always enthusiastic for community improvement, defied both of these doctrines in his theater at Rochester; skepticism has given way to applause, and the American Opera Company, surviving the early lances of critics, will visit Boston with a reputation already made...