Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entertaining, and the manner in which he handled his subject showed that he had made a thorough study of it. The Southern States east of the Mississippi were compared to the Northern States east of the Alleghanys, especially with New England, in regard to area, population and industrial progress. Virginia, thanks to slavery, is fifty years behind Massachusetts...
...students will be favored next Friday evening with a lecture by Walter H. Page of the New York World. The lecture will be "A Statement of Southern Problems," and will embrace the following topics: The industrial situation and outlook, the changes in agricultural methods made by free labor, the progress of manufactures since the war, the resources of the South. It will also touch upon the peculiar social results of the overthrow of the old society, especially as it has changed the position of women, and, as a corollary to this, the educational work and needs. The subject...
Some repairs are in progress on the Peabody Museum...
...music to Sophocles "$CEdipus at Colonus" will be given at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, May 2d, with a male chorus of nearly two hundred voices, and the full German orchestra. George Riddle, of Cambridge, Mass. who has made so marked a success in representations of this description, says Progress, will assist...
...days that gave pleasant weather were well employed by practice on the field. It is almost a month, However, before the first league game with Brown, so that there is abundant time for improvement in play, and, if the already backward season does not still further retard the progress of the nine, we may hope to see gratifying results by that time. The tennis and bicycle seasons have fairly opened. The boat-house, Holmes and Jarvis will now be frequented daily by spectators and athletes. Jarvis is rapidly being put in condition for the ball season and for the spring...