Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eternity by a mind powerful enough to know and to use some exact universal formula. Has such a world any religious aspect? The answer suggested by science is often stated thus: The world shows us universal evolution. Evolution in human nature tends towards the good, and is therefore a progress. Progress tends to realize the moral needs of man, and thus the world has a religious aspect...
...common standard, as in the matter of entrance examinations, or where mutual co-operation, as in the matter of inter-collegiate athletics, seems desirable. Yet it is not possible that her course should not be influenced to some extent by the reforms and innovations introduced at other colleges. The progress of the movement towards co-education at Columbia, therefore, has been watched with interest by all Harvard men. How far the step Columbia has taken, slight as it is, though containing the germs of future action of greater extent, is of any general significance it is impossible...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : Many friends who have watched the progress of the freshman crew from the beginning of the year, are surprised and pained to find that at this time, when the crew should be in its best form preparatory to going on the water, it seems somewhat weaker than at any time heretofore. Now, is it well for the freshmen to row the whole nine months of the school year? We can best answer this by examining the experience of the case in point. In so long a course of training as nine months, some of the best...
...interesting contents of the room. There are eighty-five Roman coins well arranged in a handsome ebony case. The dates range from 400 B. C. to 337 A. D., including specimens of the silver, gold and copper coin of the ancient Romans. The collection is excellent, as showing the progress of the Roman art of coinage, and though not as complete as could be desired is still very instructive. The coins are all well preserved. The most interesting coins in the collection are specimens of the as: The oldest is placed at the date 400 B. C. It weighs...
...doctrine in particular; then the inquiry will be taken up: What in the nature of things can be assumed to correspond to our moral needs, to offer them encouragement and religious support? Two or three theories will be passed in review under this head, notably the modern doctrine of progress as an universal law, and the doctrines in general that regard the world as showing us some kind of historical process. Then another view will be suggested as giving us another and higher sense in which we can assume that reality answers our moral needs. Finally, since all views...