Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came under Germany rule, but those nearer to the coast under Venetian," the speaker declared. "Their native aristocracy was displaced or Germanized. Their towns were largely German. Already, by the 13th century, they were under the house of Austria, and the history of their territory has been Austrian." The progress of Germanization has been very slow and unconscious until recent years...
...Real progress towards a better social order cannot grow out of more antagonisms. Any advance must come through a general appreciation that all factions have a common interest in the largest possible social dividend. That requires more production. Happiness will not come to everyone unless there are enough of the good things of life to go around. An equitable distribution is of the greatest importance, but we must be sure we have something to distribute...
...year's team; S. H. Ordway, Jr., '21, and W. R. Brewster '22. Snow has fenced on the team for three years and is an unusually reliable man on the defense. This is Ordway's second year of University fencing. Brewster, who is a left-hander, has made unusual progress and should show up to advantage during the coming season. The substitutes will be G. P. Howard '20 and J. S. Barss '22. E. K. Warren '20, one of the most promising members of the University squad, will be unable to compete on account of illness...
...purpose of this course, according to President Butler, to teach or to preach doctrines, but rather to show the movement of civilization in its achievement of constructive progress. The context of the course is drawn out not merely from history, but from economics, politics, ethics, and political science...
...wish also to protest against the point of view the Lampoon expressed toward a man of so-called radical trend especially at this time when the tendency is, in attempting to crush all activities which lead to violence, to destroy that freedom of thought and discussion through which progress is achieved under our form of government. We doubt whether this unsportsmanlike outbreak against Mr. Laski has the backing of the student body. And even if it has, that would hardly bring it within the bounds of decency. In sport, whatever opinion a person may have of Mr. Laski, all must...