Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other changes apply more to the details of the game. The penalty for off-side playing, interfering with the progress of the game, and unnecessary roughness, has been increased. The penalty for interfering with a fair catch or for any "piling on" after the referee's whistle has blown is 15 yards...
Whether Mr. Buckle be right or wrong in affirming that the progress of the race has been purely intellectual and not moral, it is certain that the imagination and conscience of men are stronger motives of action, and lead to greater results than any mere intellectual convictions. The lever of the great English Rebellion was the Conscience of England, and though Lord Bacon has said that all revolutions begin in the belly, this is in no wise true of such as bring about enduring political changes. So during our own Revolution, though the quarrel certainly began about a point...
...effort of the Prospect Union to purchase the old City Hall property in Cambridgeport has made such progress that success is now assured. Of the $10,000 which it is necessary to raise by subscriptions, over half has been definitely pledged, and many pledges have already been paid in. While enough money has been obtained to make the purchase, the balance of the sum asked for will be absolutely needed to complete the alterations which must be made in the building in order that the first floor may bring in an income from retals, and the rest of the building...
...college grounds. Even the Cambridge University, more favorably situated geographically, and less stinted in financial resources, has found it difficult to adhere strictly to her avowed purpose, and it is hardly to be expected that Dartmouth in her far corner of the earth should be more fortunate. Yet progress is being made toward this ultimate end. Already our football interests are substantially upon this basis, and the track team fails to conform only in its place of meeting the teams of other colleges. Baseball it will be far more diffieult to bring under the same restriction, though much has been...
...grounded. Of course if a man wants a set of tennis and can find no other place in which to play than the courts in front of the reserved seats there is no reason why he should be deprived of his exercise simply because a ball game is in progress and the seats are full of people. But the objections have been not so much to the playing itself as to the fact that the men have been really careless about their personal appearance. American college athletes have the reputation of being far less careful about their costumes than...