Word: progress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Henry George's Progress and Poverty; Current Objections considered by S. B. Clark; S. W. Thackeray's Land and the Community...
...school when it was first founded, Mr. Fearing, Mr. Locke and Mr. Richards. The association has now something over one hundred members, who are scattered all over the country, a letter being read from one of the members at San Francisco. Very flattering reports were given of the progress of the school and in every way the evening passed of very pleasantly...
...oral examinations on additional reading in History 18 are now in progress...
...last number of The Week's Sport Mr. W. C. Camp has a very interesting article on the progress of American football as illustrated by the changes in the rules regarding the scoring and the scrimmage. What he says of the American conception of the scrimmage is of especial interest. When Harvard and Yale adopted the Rugby game the law in the Rugby Union code read...
...through the centre on his own account. This led to unusual severity of play at that point, and a rule was passed forbidding running by the quarter. Unfortunately, yet showing how a rule is apt to open up unexpected avenues of play, the snap-back system brought in its progress the block game which came fatally near putting an end to American football The block game contained no element of science whatever, but was only an avoidance of defeat and an acknowledgement of weakness. It consisted in 'taking up time' by snapping the ball with as little loss of ground...