Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...translate an inscription on one of the tombs, but the translations were entirely false as every figure was thought to represent an idea, while some of them are only letters. The first part of the 18th century saw much time uselessly wasted, but in the latter part great progress was made and the final stroke was given by the discovery of the famous Rosetta Stone in 1799, which had an inscription in three languages, the Egyptian, Grecian, and Demotic. By means of the Greek, the other characters were easily deciphered. The second source of our knowledge of ancient Egypt...
...publications than was ever afforded before in Cambridge. We are nearly as well off now in this regard as are the students in the German university who get an opportunity to see practically every important publication that appears. Every one that cares for true economy will watch the progress of this new departure with the greatest interest. From present indications one would infer that a membership ticket will eventually prove to be a very profitable investment...
...size of the incoming classes. This fact awakens in everyone the realization of the truth that during the past few years the strides made in all the departments of science and literature have been very great, but in no direction has this advance become more manifest than in the progress of learning at the different colleges. The faculties have adopted broader principles, giving the students a larger scope in the selection of studies, and the number of courses in the different schools have been constantly enlarged. In nearly all the radical changes which have occurred, Harvard...
...from the field and enter that school where forgery, misrepresentations and other sharp practices can effect no one but themselves and the men they oppose. The college has suffered long enough for the squabbles and corrupt performances of the Union. That society, unless something is done to stay its progress, is, as one of its own members declared at a recent meeting, "fast degenerating into...
...Robert Treadwell Osgood, "Conservative Progress." - Edward Everett...