Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...defeat of the freshman nine by Princeton '99 on Saturday was somewhat unexpected and leaves the series undecided, as but two games were arranged for. The '99 crew, though, are making good progress and approaching form for the race with Wisconsin on June...
...heavy, for the past two weeks, no great amount of speed work has been done. Now, however, the shell in which they won the class races, which the 'Varsity has been using, is to be returned and a time row which will show whether the crew has made any progress of late will be rowed in a few days...
...stages of recovery. The first of these is the belief that behind nature there is a spirit whose expression nature is. The second is the more complete and joyous, and corresponds to the freer exercise of religious trust and fancy. The craving to know nature has resulted in the progress of science. But our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea. The world of our present natural knowledge is a show-world; it is enveloped in a larger world of some sort, about which we mortals can frame no positive idea. As Kant pointed out, of this unknowable world...
...will contain such historical matter under each term as may be necessary to justify the definition given and to show that the usage suggested is the outcome of the progress of philosophy together with special historical articles...
...Charles Dickinson, "Progress of the Negro Race," Booker Washington...