Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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After a brief sketch of his life, vividly portraying the difficulties which he had to surmount, from the day when he was a slave boy to the time when he was a slave boy to the time when he graduated from the Hampton Institute, he outlined the growth and progress of the Tuskegee Institute. The institute, he outlined the growth and progress of the Tuskegee institute. The institute began with a membership of one teacher and thirty students. The school-house was a shanty of small dimensions. Now there are 156 teachers and 1500 men and women coming from...
...same is true with reference to the race as to the individual. Any race which is uneducated is apt to yield to the temptation of going from one extreme to another. The Anglo-Saxon race should then not judge the black race too severely, but should compare its progress with that of nations longer civilized. It would then be seen that the rapid advance of the negroes has been almost unprecedented...
...have recently been installed in the Germanic Museum. These are full-sized reproductions of the bronze gates of the Augsburg Cathedral and of the crucifixion group from the church of Wechselburg, in Saxony. The former belong to the middle of the eleventh century, and are important evidence of the progress of technique in German plastic art after its beginnings in the Hildesheim School. There are altogether thirty-five panels, each of them containing some symbolical representation of Christian doctrine. The cast was bought partly with money given by the Germanic Department of Mt. Holyoke College, and partly with the proceeds...
...that economic evolutions are independent of social changes, and have no points in common with them. The nineteenth century, in which social equality has attained to a greater extent than ever before, has witnessed the birth of great inequality in fortunes. Upon the fortunes of the laboring classes, the progress of a country has really no affect, as is seen in certain periods of French history, especially in the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries...
Under the changes brought about by the revolution, there was no material difference in the condition of the workingman; merely a political change resulted. Since the revolution, on the other hand, the workingman has experienced great material changes. These are due solely to the progress of science and not to political interference. The most important element in the consideration of this matter, has been the changes in money values. Two hundred dollars in the year 1200, would be worth only 74 cents today...