Word: progressivity
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...Pennsylvania. He has now an eight in a barge, and the rest practice in a four-oared shell. The season being earlier at New Haven and the water not so ice-bound they are rowing on the water. The men are lighter than last year, but are making good progress. Appleton will be the permanent stroke. Their stroke this year is slower than last, and all the power seems to be put in at the beginning, causing the boat to jerk forward, which serious defects will be remedied later under Captain Cook's supervision. The Yale men think that this...
...tariff questions; but the former confines itself to the universal suffrage, forms of government, and the conduct of government. Political science is of a very recent date, and is better known in England than anywhere else. The history of France is very interesting in this respect, showing the continual progress towards government by the people. Our constitutional history is entirely confined to the making of constitutions, and there has been no study of its subsequent working. But there is much ground for study in our town and city government, and also a deplorable lack of knowledge on the subject...
...whole history of popular government shows a steady progress. Out of anarchy arose despotism, and from despotism the people have been revolting ever since. In England this struggle has been slow; in France marked by successive revolutions. Our constitution in the anxiety to do away with all danger of a "one man power," went to the other extreme and entirely separated the legislative from the executive, but did not define the powers of each. Thus the legislative body has gained the whole power, and it does nothing but fight over the spoils. The responsibility is so divided among the committees...
...department, and he was therefore glad of the opportunity to explain his position and that of the college on the subject. Hellenism, he said, was the most precious motive, after Christianity, in the intellectual life of today, and whoever would remove it would do a great wrong. But the progress of discovery had opened new heavens and earths. Whole sets of new studies has grown into existence, and Harvard was endeavoring to accommodate the old standards of culture to the new conditions. There was no disposition to undervalue Greek and Latin. The only desire was in keeping...
...there were only two colleges whose intellectual and physical contests arrest the attention and arouse the enthusiasm of the American people-Harvard and Yale. He hoped they would never come nearer together, but go on each endeavoring to show its own system to be the best, for that meant progress in education...