Word: progressivity
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Completely crazed at the sight of so unexpected a piece of good luck, the Princeton supporters burst into the field and interrupted the progress of the game by their frantic jubilation. When the field was cleared, R. Hodge readily kicked a goal. Yale men appeared completely dazed at this reverse of fortune, and though Beecher made a beautiful run when the ball was again kicked off, there was little appreciation of it among the mournful spectators. After some unimportant play, Referee Camp mercilessly called "time," and Yale was defeated for the second time since the formation of the inter-collegiate...
...wonder, in view of these facts, that the microscope received much attention, and as early as the first part of the seventeenth century the "compound microscope" was invented. Henceforth the progress of the instrument was that of mechanical skill and scientific knowledge. The establishing of the theory of Achromatics, late in the last century, brought the microscope rapidly forward, and the date of 1807 finds us with an "a chromatic microscope," embracing all the main features of the present instrument...
...Liber Brunensis is in progress of construction...
...Dole, trainer of the University of Pennsylvania eleven, is reported to have said "that foot-ball is a science, and that this science has made such progress within the past two years that men, once fine players, are now inefficient and worthless; that the foot-ball of to-day is a new game, in which strength and weight are no longer everything. Skill is now the requisite for fine play, and that skill he is trying to develop in the University men." - Yale News...
...inundate our column. It is as yet rather more of a ripple than a real, large wave, but as a rolling stone gathers no moss - no, not that exactly, rather as a rolling snow ball becomes the more large and elegant by the very fact of its on ward progress, so in the course of time will this mass of photographic correspondence enlarge in magnitude from the insignificant proportions of a three-line notice to the full-grown glory of a half column announcement. This photographic matter is an old one. It has been brought to the notice of generation...