Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...keeping with the progress of the Scientific School, the department of Geology offers two new half courses this year. They will be known as Geology 10 and Geology 11, and will be given by Mr. Henry Lloyd Smythe...
...translation into Latin from John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University (Essay on Christianity and Letters), from "In the country which has been "through" the best guarantees for intellectual progress...
...will play in the Yale game. He has made wonderful improvement during the two weeks of secret practice, and is now looked upon as the most fortunate "find" of the year. He is quick and spirited in his work and inspires the team with confidence. Fairchild has made considerable progress also, and will be first substitute, with Borden '96 second...
...last characteristic of true religion is progressiveness. Religion must keep pace with humanity, and humanity knows no standstill. The fault with your religion is that it dissociates itself from other pursuits. With us, science grew out of religion, but in your country you are engaged in a fight with science in which you must inevitably be driven into a corner. If you fight religion with science, both must perish. Let your religion be simple and natural, but let it always keep progressing with the rapid progress...
...something for the advancing of this very precious cause? In the university are members of all denominations, and those outside of denominations. We can make progress towards religious union by bringing people of all kinds together. It need never be feared that religion is losing its power. It is a permanent motive. If we are to seek union, it may best be sought through the lifting up of one ideal of human character...