Word: progressivity
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...lecturer described the landing of the troops on the Island and the skirmish which took place immediately afterwards. He then outlined the campaign that had been planned for the conquest of Puerto Rico and told of General Stone's march across the island. After narrating the progress of his own column from the coast village of Guanica, where the troops landed, to Utnado, Arecibo, and San Juan, the lecturer described his second visit to the Island, the journey from San Juan to Arecibo, Utnado and Ponce, and the return of San Juan by the military road...
...candidate who receives the Fellowship will be required to spend at least one year in travel and study in Europe under the general direction of the Professor of Architecture. He will also be required to submit monthly reports of his progress and to send at the end of each half year a measured drawing of some monument of architecture to be approved by the Department...
...public has been the more directed to the great question. The negative has shown that trade-unionism has been has shown that trade-unionism has been a great necessity; and that its evils have not been comparable with the evils of other great movements of history making for the progress of civilization and the best interests of a people...
...dwelt on the past of trade unionism the question is not one that calls for balancing past good results with past evil results. The discussion concerns a general tendency. Moreover, much of the good claimed by the negative came prior to the last twenty years. Furthermore all the industrial progress of those twenty years has not been due to trade unionism. The aims of unionism have been essentially selfish in disregarding the rights of the majority; and this is evidenced by strikes, boycotts and their attitude towards the courts. The affirmative claims that the methods of trade unionism in general...
Beede, in rebuttal, pointed out that the affirmative had confined itself to the history of unionism, dewelling more upon it than the negative and addressing concert evidence of evil where the negative had merely asserted good. The negative, he said, has been two optimistic in regard to general progress. The affirmative has shown by concrete arguments a general tendency of disregard for the rights of the community