Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...human will is the instrument of the motive and purpose is its outgrowth. Good desires are the raw measures from which purpose is created; the measures of human capacity for desires that are changed into the realization of character are replaced by new desires and so spiritual progress is achieved...
...live in a constant condition of mental change, not always mental progress, but if the desire back of the change is good the upward striving in its reaction on the mind is bound to have a good effect on character. Will power is more enduring and capable of achievement than the power of the tides them selves. Too often we confound wishing and willing, but wishing ends in nothing and willing ends in achievement. Because often wishing is not changed into willing there result so many broken vows and half-carried-out resolutions. Our vows are not serious enough...
...will doubtless be impossible to bring this organization at once into a position as strong as that of the Cosmopolitan Club of Cornell. The inertia of a new idea will operate to retard its progress, as well as the absorption of the natural leaders of such a move by other interests. But, if started, this society should not occupy the position of numerous other bodies which have monthly smokers as the only excuse for their existence. It should be so conducted that newly-arrived foreigners will feel that an active interest is felt in them by more than the College...
...sorts of progress has got to be made some day. Some kind of progress in football we demand today. Undergraduates and graduates should carefully consider which of several possible radical changes is the best, and having arrived at a majority conclusion through the university publications, or in a general meeting of the members of the Harvard Athletic Association, should insist that their Athletic Committee conform to that conclusion and carry out conscientiously whatever reforms Harvard men decree. C. W. CATE...
There were two great aims in the life of John Harvard. First, there was the love of freedom--the source of progress, the inspiration of mankind. Secondly, there was education, its promotion, diffusion, improvement, and enlargement...