Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...considerable head-way when discovered at about 9 o'clock by the night watchman. Two alarms were rung in immediately, and the fire was quickly extinguished, as soon as the engines arrived. The loss, estimated at about $250.00 was chiefly of plumbers' tools and store lumber, so that the progress of the hall was not materially set back...
...leading article in the September number of the Graduates' Magazine is the speech delivered last June before the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa by Hon. James Bryce. In a discussion of the eternally perplexing problem of Progress, it presents rather the difficulties in the way of answering the question,--"Has mankind on the whole advanced?"--than any actual definition or answer. Mr. Bryce points out that material progress, which is obvious and easy to determine, by no means involves intellectual and moral progress. The sum of human happiness, which ought to be a certain index of progress, cannot possibly...
...second noteworthy change is found in the tendency toward individual teaching. This is a fearfully expensive improvement, and is the main reason for the increasing cost of an education in this country. But perhaps the chief evidence of progress is found in the change in the matter of discipline and the form and spirit of government in the school...
...Brown '10, president of the class, presided and introduced the speakers, the first of whom was H. Foster, Jr., '07, who has coached the nine. Foster outlined the progress of the baseball team since it was first called out. He said that although the team was not composed of star players, it was steady and reliable and had a good battery with two excellent pitchers. It has won all of its ten games, and there is no reason why it should not win tomorrow...
...Cause and Extent of the Recent Internal Progress of Germany," by E. D. Howard...