Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were made and the next Saturday the eight was again easily defeated by Cornell and Princeton. After this race Lowe was put in at stroke and the crew much improved. In the three weeks that the squad has been at Gales Ferry no change has been made and good progress has been made. The crew has paddled over the course in easy time but no fast work has been tried...
...overestimated. Their success next year depends in large measure upon the forehanded efforts that the officers make this spring toward getting the right men to say that they will speak. Perhaps it may be difficult to get definite replies as yet, but every step taken now will make progress next fall both easier and quicker. The choice of dates might, well be left until then. To restore the Union lectures to their, former standard requires from now on the untiring perseverance of the 1912 officers...
Owing to the comparatively slow progress on the Beacon Hill tunnel it is expected that the Cambridge end will be completed first, or sometime during the coming fall. At present the working force is engaged in installing the electric light wiring and in ballasting the track at the Kimball square station. Crushed stone will be laid as a foundation for the ties and tracks throughout the whole length of the subway. None of the cables or trolley wires have yet been installed. These will be put in after the other wiring is completed as will the tilling at all three...
...laid upon the influence of great men and great achievements, and upon the methods common to all the sciences. At the end of the course some of the important affairs of society-medicine, manufacturing, engineering, agriculture, transportation, and the like-will be discussed in their relationship to the progress of science...
...collectivists have indisputably made great progress, which has sometimes been attributed to the socialists. Socialism is a word which is made to cover a great deal and which frightens people. But there is a great difference between collectivism and socialism, and many who call themselves socialists are in reality collectivists. True socialists have from the beginning condemned the right to hold private property and to transmit it in bequest or gifts. But collectivists have seen that the acquiring and transmitting of property has been one of the motives which have produced civilization from savagery and have accordingly believed in these...