Word: progress
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...trustee 'converts' money or property belonging to the trust, and mingles it with other property, the trust is gone." The usual editorial notices and lecture notes follow and the number concludes with the department "Recent Cases," in which are given the latest decisions of the courts, showing the progress and general tendencies of the law. The editors are to be congratulated for the neat appearance of the magazine and for the valuable contributions presented in its pages...
Number forty-six in the series of pamphlets which G. P. Putnam's Sons are issuing under the title of "Questions of the Day," is "Property in Land: An Essay on the New Crusade," by Henry Winn. The author reviews the most striking arguments in Mr. George's "Progress and Poverty," and states clearly his reasons for believing in the present social system as one of substantial justice...
...training for the Mott Haven team were greatly annoyed yesterday afternoon by the action of some persons crossing the track on Holmes Field on the way to the base-ball ground. A steady stream of people kept pouring over the track when the various races were in progress, and many obliging individuals stolidly insisted on passing over directly in front of the runners, without changing their slow pace or seeming in any way affected by what was going on. During the bicycle race especially many individuals appeared utterly regardless of the feelings of the riders, and Mr. Lathrop was often...
...Captain Stevenson and ex-Captain Cowles. Cook is very reticent in giving information about the crew; he does not commit himself even so far as to state its strength compared with those of former years. He went out in the afternoon to look the men over and see what progress they had made with the stroke. it is highly probable that there will be a considerable weeding out of the candidates soon, and the selection of the crew that is to race with Harvard will be made immediately after. The men are in excellent condition, owing in a large measure...
...excavations now in progress in Attica are under the supervision of Mr. Buck of Yale. It will be remembered that last year a theatre, with its orchestra and stage, was excavated at Sicyon. The work at present is going on near the ruins of a Byzantine church. In the apseof the church a choragic monument was found, upon whose architraive were the names of those patrons of the chorus who erected it in commemoration of a triumph in a literary competition. Outside the church a marble seat or throne was unearthed, while near it there were traces of votin slabs...