Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that college education is a failure. On the contrary it is the greatest force for progress in modern civilization. The question is simply, How can the great investment in intellectual pursuits be made to pay the maximum dividend, not in money, but in ideas and in improvement of the capacity...
...himself the power of musical enjoyment. From the educational point of view, moreover, it is almost a requisite in a man who boasts a college degree, that he be acquainted, in an elementary way, at least, with the world's greatest master-pieces of music. Strangely enough, with the progress of civilization, music has become more and more of a minor factor in general culture. The great statesman, Themistocles, was derided because he could not play the harp, yet we are not the least bit ashamed to admit that, with no thought of playing ourselves, the mere listening to music...
...Progress marches slowly; and some day it may be hoped that dwellers in the Yard will not have to plead for the elementary comfort. Else, most certainly and desirably, they who refuse this demand, will one day enjoy heat in abundance...
...opportunity will be afforded all those men who cannot go to Princeton Saturday to follow the progress of the game play by play on the score board which the CRIMSON will operate in the Living Room of the Union Saturday afternoon, starting at 2 o'clock. A direct wire has been arranged from the Princeton press stand to the Union and telegrams containing complete information--who carried the ball, where the play went, and ground gained or lost--will be sent off after each play. The progress of the ball will be recorded on a large chart and frequent announcements...
...Princeton, the Harvard team is still in a somewhat crude stage of development. Many disappointments have been caused by what this year's eleven has failed to do, and a doubt, not ordinarily entertained so late in the season, remains in Harvard minds. Whether the obstacles still besetting the progress of the University eleven are insuperable will not be known until Saturday, when Harvard meets a worthy, perhaps a matchless foe in the team of the Nassau Tigers...