Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...William Belden Noble Lectures for 1900--01 will be given by the Hon. and Very Rev. William Henry Fremantle, D. D., Dean of Ripon, England: General Subject. "The Bearing of Christian Ordinances on Social Progress." These lectures will be open to the public, and will be given in Phillips Brooks House, at 8 p. m., on the following dates...
...last ten days there has been a double force of men at work on the Harvard Union in order that rapid progress may be made before winter sets in. Within a week the building will be entirely roofed over, and the interior work will then be pushed forward. The contract calls for the building to be finished by June, but it will undoubtedly be ready before that time...
...second touchdown. Soon after the next kick-off the team changed sides near the second's goal and the first team was put on the defense. The first took the ball on downs and started to rush the ball down the field. Slow and spiritless playing made the progress slow, until Devens circled left end and ran forty yards for the third touchdown...
...series of games between the schools, Andover has now won 11, and Exeter 8. Though at times brilliant, as when Lasley after a double pass swept by Andover's end for thirty-five yards, the playing was uninteresting, and the continual delays from injuries made the progress of the game rather slow. Andover was outplayed in every respect and gained by straight football less than sixty yards in the whole game. Andover's line was slow in defense and could not stop the straight line bucking plays that Exeter adopted throughout the game. Exeter tried but three end plays...
...follows: "Since the Democratic party has absolutely thrown away the low tariff position which such leaders as Cleveland, Carlisle, Wilson, and Russell won for it, the reciprocity doctrine of the Republican party seems to afford the best immediate opportunity for liberal legislation; although it must be confessed that progress towards world-wide trade is more likely to come through the logic of events than than through legislation--that is, through the increasing superiority of American industries and the manifest insufficiency of the home market." The other passage, concluding the paragraph, modifies the assertion concerning Republican capitalists...