Word: progressivity
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...natural phenomena. This was due to Plato who founded that school of philosophers known as the Sceptics. Aristotle carried Plato's idea further. He conceived that the production of everything was due to antecedent causes. Thus science departed from the theistic conception. For a while Greek learning made rapid progress, but by the advent of the Romans it was crushed. Science ceased to have a place among the arts in Greece. Many learned Greeks found their way to Alexandria, where, until the burning of the library, science was fostered...
...Lands at the base of the Rocky Mountains checked the emigrants. At this point, the difficulty of advance was so great that it was easier to go around the Horn to San Francisco than across the Bad Lands and the Rockies. When the railroads were put through, however, progress was rapid...
...necessary to abandon them altogether. Ease and effectiveness in the government of the College are chiefly to be expected along the line of better understanding between the Faculty and the students; for in the case of two such bodies it is not familiarity, but unfamiliarity, which breeds contempt. The progress of the past few years has shown how true this is, and it has been very gratifying to notice the constantly improving relations between professors and students. The College Conferences would have contributed much to further advance in this direction. It would, however, be out of the question to start...
...Freshman Glee Club is making considerable progress. W. W. Hoyt, the leader has trained the upper and lower parts separately. By this method great precision has been obtained and the voices on each part have thus had individual attention. As yet, however, the singing is ragged, owing to a lack of time and expression. Several new pieces will be sung and H. M. Woodruff will probably be the soloist...
...burdens here mentioned, said Professor Peabody, are of two kinds: those which we must bear for others and those which we must bear ourselves. This teaching was a new conception of Christian self-sacrifice; it was the foundation for the progress of the west, and was never followed out more than it is today. It is this doctrine which has made the present an age of philanthropy: people everywhere are helping their fallen brethren...