Word: progress
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Common people relish definiteness in a constitution, and the more rigid it is the better it is suited to the democratic mind, and by being rigid avoids two democratic dangers, disrespect for a minority and for fixed rules. Is there a progress from rigidity to flexibility ? The time comes in a democracy when the people are completely masters, and do not value restrictions. The tendency to rigidity will therefore stop, and a larger authority be given the executive. A rigid constitution is an absolute necessity in a federation ; but a semi-international compact of England and her colonies had better...
Yale men are being treated to lectures almost every day. Several courses are in progress, under the direction of the college professors...
...printed since the dark ages. This language was reported on good authority to be a close adaptation of that famous tongue which gave birth to the words (since adopted as the favorite motto of the athletic committee) "Veni, vidi, vici." But, alas ! strange inconsistencies have crept in with the progress of civilization, until we doubt if even Caesar himself would take much pleasure in perusing the contents of the catalogue of the present...
...University and the Freshman crews are preparing for Inter-collegiate races, it may be presumed that the entire college is interested in their progress. Consequently a more detailed criticism of them has been prepared than was given to the three upper class crews in the first part of this article last week...
...position of the Yale authorities that checked our faculty in its earlier attempts to improve athletics, and the Yale papers have never, within recollection, advocated athletic reforms. Under these circumstances an article from a Yale pen, calling for a higher standard in college sports, is a happy sign of progress. Take these two sentences of Mr. Ripley's, for instance: "The leading principle," he says, "in contests between gentlemen, should be that the best man should beat, and in a gentlemanly way." Again, he says that the howling which was a feature of certain base ball games last year, "indicates...