Word: progress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best General References: Spencer's Social Statistics, ch. IX; Progress and Poverty; American Soc. Sci. Ass'n, Report for 1890; Ricardo's chapters on rent; Mill...
...candidates for the 'varsity nine will probably be materially reduced in number at the beginning of next week in order to make rapid progress easier. The freshman candidates still number about thirty-five...
...lost much valuable time owing to the lateness of its organization and to the necessity of suspending work during the mid-years; besides the majority of the men read with great difficulty, so that all new music has to be drilled into them little by little, which makes their progress unusually slow. In addition to these disadvantages, the club has suffered a great deal from the scarcity of first tenors, and is still very weak in that department. For these reasons the club is much less advanced than is usually the case with the Freshman Glee Club at this time...
...Yale semi-annual examinations are now in progress...
...Lord is not good to all. The experience of pain is necessary for an experience of pleasure. Death frees the wheels of life from the clogs. Man gets tired of a continuous striving, and death makes room for the thousands who are better able to help on the progress of the world. If, as we all believe, death is but the birth-hour of another better and brighter existence, death is not an evil but a blessing...