Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...change is the symptom of progress. We can define life only as a series of constant changes ending in death, the great change to something beyond. Wordsworth defines progress as a movement of the race toward an unattainable perfection. In progress there is always a tendency to reaction. Conversion is a reaction, a putting away of old associations. The progress in science, which seemed to question some religious beliefs, brought about a reaction in the belief in one absolutely true religion...
Harvard Religious Union. Can Religion Progress? Professor A. V. G. Allen. Holden Chapel...
...special feature of the session will be the attention given to the Labor Question and allied subjects in each of the Departments. In the Department of Economics the relation of Economics to Social Progress will be discussed by leading economists from different universities. In the Departments of Ethics and History of Religion various phases of the Labor Problem in the past and present will be considered by a large corps of able lecturers...
There will be an important Conference of Educators and Teachers, during the week August 5 to 11, inclusive. The relation of various forms of educational activity to ethical and social progress will be considered by leading educators and opportunity will be afforded for free and full discussion...
...attended. After a few introductory remarks the speaker gave a short history of railroad signalling and then proceeded to illustrate the modern methods of signalling. The immense strides which have recently been made in this work are mostly due to the application of electricity. If an equal amount of progress can be made in the next few years, a railway accident will practically become an impossibility...