Word: western
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Subway via Western avenue to Harvard square two and three minute time...
...opinion of authorities on sociology, said Mr. Ramanathan, the nations of the west are progressive, while the nations of the east are stationary. One of the standards by which the advancement of nations is measured is industrial progress. By this standard the western nations are called progressive and the eastern nations stationary. But the east believes that effort for industrial progress should not be expended beyond a certain point. Industrial progress and spiritual progress should hold a sort of balance. If the goal of action is anything beside the satisfaction of the senses, then the progress of a people should...
Political progress is another standard. The intricate game of politics is one that fascinates western people; but how can it develop character? How can politics, with its party systems, its passing and repealing of laws, its electing and deposing officials, change individual love into neighborly love...
From this analysis of the standards by which the progress of nations is measured it will appear that the western nations are not as progressive as they seem. If the present generations persist in following the methods of their fathers, the west will sink to where it cannot rise. In the east there is a balance held between material progress and spiritual progress, and it would be the saving of the west to maintain a like balance...
...more important outside football games today are as follows: Yale vs. Pennsylvania State, at New Haven; Pennsylvania vs. Brown, at Philadelphia; Columbia vs. Amherst, at New York; Princeton vs. Lafayette, at Princeton; Cornell vs. Western Institute, at Ithaca; Carlisle vs. Dickinson, at Carlisle; Annapolis vs. North Carolina, at Annapolis; Syracuse vs. Colgate, at Syracuse; Williams vs. Dartmouth, at Hanover...