Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Persecution never injured Christianity but if anything helped its progress. Corruption first sprang up from within coincident with the growth of privilege, creeds, and social distinctions. Christianity was used to bolster up temporal as well as spiritual power in the formation of the papacy, and in so doing lost most of the true interpretation of Christ's teachings. On looking back over history we can see how much more clearly men now understand the following of his teachings than at that time, yet many are still entangled in the meshes of dogma and theology. If religion is going...
...significant fact that no human being has ever been injured in their agitations except possibly the suffragettes themselves. In closing, Mrs. Pankhurst added that equal suffrage would in the end be of more benefit to men than to women and would mark a great advance in human progress...
Colleges as a rule are opposed to socialism. They do not deny free speech, but exert their influence against it by pure indifference. In spite of this, however, socialism is slowly bringing about an educational awakening at Harvard, and in some western universities has already made great progress...
Economically the negro has made remarkable progress. In the last ten years, the number of negro farmers has increased 19 per cent., while the increase of white farmers is only 9 per cent. Again, at the time of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation only 3 per cent. of the negroes in the United States could read or write, whereas now over 57 per cent. can,--a higher average than many countries of Europe can boast...
...achievement and scholarly promise have been the basis of election, and a conscientious attempt has been made to do justice to every eligible name. In determining the elections, scholarship grades alone have not been the ultimate grounds for decision; the difficulty of the courses taken and the student's progress throughout his college career have also received due consideration. The names are arranged alphabetically and not according to rank or order of election...