Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...race. The social question is puzzling the minds of statesmen all over the world. I do not come here claiming to have found a solution for these problems, but to suggest a light that shall show the way out. Every where the growth of Christianity has been a steady progress toward freedom. The essential beauty of civilization is charity. Freedom is the essential thing of civilization. Now freedom has brought no more substantial result than the substitution of free labor for slave. Nevertheless the industrial system based upon freedom contains within itself elements which threaten its existence. The adjustment...
These industrial disputes are the results of progress, not of degeneracy. The possibility of a strike, however, has never been measured. It is more deadly than any form of civil war or foreign invasion. When we come to inquire into causes of internal discontent, we find ourselves disturbed by clamors from agitators-not from the so-called oppressed. Excited by these complaints, some have undertaken to change the economic rules of the universe. These men cannot be recognized as the causes of discontent, but they are the evidences...
...Fogg Lecture Room at 8 o'clock this evening Mr. C. P. Parker will lecture before the Classical Club on "The True History of the Reign of Nero." This lecture will be an historical account of the great movements in progress during the reign of Nero rather than a criticism of the writers on that period, although some attention will be paid to the misconceptions arising from the reading of "Quo Vadis" and the general histories of Rome...
Interest in the game is steadily increasing here and the association has already secured the services of a coach. Negotiations are now in progress for a game with one or two local teams, and it is hoped that games may be arranged with Yale and several other college teams...
...progress of the building is not unexpectedly delayed by bad weather it will probably be ready for the baseball practice soon after the first of February. In case, however, the new cage is not completed before the practice begins, the old Carey building will be used at first...