Word: progressively
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only one which accords with the principle of academic freedom. I hope the time will come when you and your colleagues in Germany will recognize that this course is the only right one: and that it is essential to the cause of universal scholarship and human progress that scholars should associate together again on friendly terms, without regard to national conflicts that have occurred. Very truly yours, A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...
...universally towards guidance and help to the average man at the possible expense of the single genius. The "make or break" theory is no longer in fashion. Therefore, all innovations making for a higher general average of undergraduate efficiency and success are to be considered as in line with progress...
...thinks the cause of peace at all worth while can be honest with himself and at the same time belittle the difficulties which lie ahead. Peace is essentially a state of mind. Its progress among civilized nations today depends upon enlightenment in simple self-interest. It devolves upon every man who has seen the futility of war and felt the imperative need for some constructive organization to take the place of brute force, to constitute himself a perpetual centre of propaganda and education for others. Only thus can knowledge of the basis of international relationship penetrate from...
...University baseball team will practice outdoors today for the first time, if weather permits. Practice will be held on the second team diamond until the University field can be put into condition. The team has already made progress in its development, for the battery men have been working in the Cage since the middle of February, and the fielding candidates, who were called out about a week ago, have been practicing batting, running bases, and stopping ground balls...
...according to reason and with-out fighting? He is blind indeed to modern thought who seeks to argue from the world of a century and more ago to the world of today. And he must be wilfully blind who would deny the existence of an ever-growing instrument of progress and civilization in the form of an international public opinion strong enough to settle all disputes, except those between nations armed to the teeth "in the hope of peace"--and in the expectation...