Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...memorable group of potentates assembled at Vienna to discuss the question of peace and the reconstruction of the map of Europe on rather reactionary doctrines. It has required over a hundred years of growth and progress to remould the political and social structure of society, so malformed by Count von Metternich, Czar Alexander of Russia, and the other politicians...
Despite this remarkable progress, there still exists a group of selfish and contemptible individuals who will forever place their own interests before the interests of humanity,--who, in other words, have not read the "signs of the times". Such persons will be given little recognition, if any, at the coming peace conference...
...glance over the football situation at the various colleges seems to show that the sport is making good progress, although it is naturally greatly handicapped by war conditions and requirements...
...rule. There has scarcely been a man who has not experienced great difficulty in both completing his plans and carrying them into execution. Harvard College has been revolutionized with the result that its Faculty and undergraduate body are paying in confusion, the price of the change. As the days progress, however, things are beginning to settle down into their natural channels. The machinery of the S. A. T. C. is beginning to run smoothly; the new plan has attained a practical and tangible basis...
...ineradicable misfortune. During the past year the American universities seemed to be moving toward the same end. Men knew that, barring a change in policy, the new draft age would not only impair a great part of collegiate usefulness, but would actually threaten the march of American academic progress. The S. A. T. C. plan has efficiently removed these dangers. The identity of the college has been made secure while its usefulness to the nation in this time of need has been redoubled...