Word: progress
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...usefulness. It is all very well to say that free government is better than good government, and that prohibition is an infringement of private liberty. But when liberty has become to a large extent license, and that license is of a type to stunt and inhibit progress by destroying the effectiveness of a definite number of human beings in each generation, it is the clear duty of the state to step in and protect society from a part of itself, if necessary by compulsion. Beyond all doubt this clear duty may be performed satisfactorily by the state only...
...Senator is exactly right; the publication of this document by the Senate will only sow dissension among the people. And all the disputes may be for naught for the paper may be of no official character whatsoever. If the executive does not desire to inform the legislature on the progress of the treaty, that is the President's business. Many of us believe that Mr. Wilson has not taken the Senate sufficiently into his confidence and have criticized him accordingly. But that does not excuse the Senate for taking illegitimate means to discredit the administration...
...foreign exchange, commercial geography, foreign trade, credit, forms and documents, and foreign languages. In addition to these classes which are held before and after the regular banking hours, special lectures and interviews are arranged by the bank's educational department. Examinations are held at stated intervals to determine the progress made...
Hawker has contributed much toward world-progress in aviation; in his next attempt he will probably contribute more. But perhaps his greatest service has been purely unintentional. He has made two great kindred nations feel keenly how like they are, one to the other, in their basic love of good sportsmanship. He has brought Britain and America closer, perhaps, than ever before, thus imparting even more life and substance to the cordial and brotherly words uttered by President Wilson in London and Manchester last December...
...Harvard Alumni Bulletin is a very essential and important element in the progress of the University. The future success of any university is so greatly dependent upon the graduates of the institution that an alumni publication of the right kind is almost an absolute necessity. The Bulletin is the vehicle for the expression of graduate opinion and the chief link between the alumni and the important phases of college life. It also serves as an information bulletin to all graduates in which they may read from week to week of the doings of their classmates and friends. The Bulletin publishes...