Word: progressivity
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Just when Harvard was making steady progress Borden fumbled, and Harvard lost five yards. Dunlop could not make any impression on the West Point line, and C. Brewer was obliged to kick on the third down. He kicked the ball to West Point's 25 yard line...
...substantial injustice is done to the negro by this policy.- (a) He takes practically no interest in politics: North Am. Review CLIII, 649 (December, 1891).- (b) The best thought among the negroes today seeks social and economic progress rather than political privileges: Outlook, Sept. 18. 1895; North Am. Review CLIII, 650 (December...
...structure should also give increased accommodations for official quarters and professors' rooms. When ultimately this new reading room is secured, the three-story stack in Gore Hall can be carried up four more stories, thus making it the chief store-room of the collections. The plan now in progress seemed under the circumstances, the most advisable method of securing the temporary relief, for which the call was imperative. Very little of the $50,000 which the changes may cost will be spent in a way to be ultimately sacrificed, as almost all of the work will make part...
BOSTON PARK THEATRE.- Thomas Q. Seabrooke's third week at the Park Theatre is proving even more successful than the first two. "A World of Trouble" is a cleverly constructed farcical comedy by the Paultons. During the first ten minutes of the play's progress the audience is made acqunainted with the state of affairs in Middleton Simpkin's household. Then the fun begins. Every character misunderstands every other character, a series of cross purposes ensue and for hours surprise treads upon the heels of surprise while the audience is convulsed with merrment. Mr. Seabrook's comic art has full...
...this means a great throng of patient waiters for the procession was kept informed of the time of its start and of the progress it was making...