Word: progressivity
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...doubtless true that women of the present time do not do as much physical work as women formerly did, but you should remember that society, like language, abandons only that for which it has no longer use. The natural progress of society has made it desirable for women to devote more attention to the cultivation of her intellect and of those talents which make her what we broadly term "accomplished...
...toward science. All the courses in Greek were taken by the female students last year. The classes were fed by the best private and high schools. The professors marked the young women on the same scale with the young men, and have expressed great satisfaction with their progress. Twenty young women, who passed the preliminary examinations last June to the regular course of four years, are expecting to take the final examination next June. The girls have all worked hard, and their health has in no case suffered. All have conducted themselves in a thoroughly exemplary manner...
...should be developed, their higher courses of study pursued; in other words, a city is the place for a university. As a university, I see no limit to the possibilities of Columbia's power and influence, if she keep her face turned unflinchingly in the direction of progress...
Last evening Gen. Francis A. Walker lectured to a large audience in Sever 11 upon "American Manufactures." The lecturer thought that without protective tariff our country would have made greater progress. In inventive genius we are to other nations as giants to pigmies. The American, however, will waste even if he has to work harder. The lecturer's closing remarks were greeted with enthusiastic applause...
...some of our leading colleges. The support of Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Cornell and Brown, was secured for the plan, and immediate arrangements were made for its execution. This work has been steadily prosecuted since, until now the committee are prepared to make a public statement of the progress of the plan and the prospects of the school. The provisional scheme of the school is briefly this...