Word: progress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...extension of the municipal franchise to women is justifiable as necessary to women's interests.- (a) The progress of women towards complete social equality with man has been great and constant.- (1) Towards industrial equality: Report of Bureau of Statistics of Labor, 1889.- (2) Towards legal equality.- (3) Towards equality in the holding and management of property.- (4) Towards educational equality: Speech of Senator Carey, Feb. 27, 1891.- (b) It is necessary for the protection of their interests that those who obey the law and pay taxes should have a distinct voice in the government.- (1) The objection that women...
...desired that many more new men join the squad and learn the game. It is not too late in the season to make good progress and stand a chance for the team...
...began his lecture on Abraham Lincoln last evening by stating briefly and frankly the exceedingly low and poor beginnings of Lincoln's career. Lincoln's formal education was in fragments, which made up altogether less than a year's schooling. The Bible, however, Aesop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools. And after...
...courtesy to the speaker. But last evening in Sanders Theatre there was a score of men and women who displayed the utmost udeness not only to Prince Wolkonsky, but to the rest of the audience, by leaving the theatre with more or less disturbance while the lecture was in progress. Unfortunately there were many members of the University who in this way also showed their inability to understand the first principles of gentlemanly behavior. Of course those who made themselves noticeable last evening probably did not realize that they were giving a pitiable confession of ignorance...
...meet the demands of foreign markets. But it was too late; twenty years of the outgo of silver had taken away her power to exercise this check. The discovery of the mines of Brazil still further reduced the value of gold in relation to silver, and facilitated the progress of England toward a predominant gold-circulation. In 1816 an act was passed making gold the sole legal tender for large payments...