Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...What we have so long and so earnestly preached, we now propose to practice; and we trust that our esteemed contemporaries, the Lampoon and Advocate, will aid us in our attempt, by putting in the field the best players they can get from their editorial boards, and by pressing forward in the contest for the inter-press foot-ball championship with the interest and the energy that have always characterized their labors in other fields. We will say here that, of course, we do not ourselves aspire to first place; for we wish to avoid the merest possibility of having...
...covered by the different articles includes the historic, the critical, the imaginative, the analytic, the poetic. Prof. Sanborn contributes a testimony of Harvard's part in the movement of emancipation. His words bring before the undergraduates of to-day a picture of noble work, and lead them to look forward with sturdier ambitions. All, however, will not see the paradoxical feature of Harvard's reputation. To many, Harvard may be conservative, but to more the Harvard of to-day would seem to champion the side of new ideas. If Harvard is conservative, the "New Education" shows the liberal side...
...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...
...game between '87 and '86 will be looked forward to with a good deal of interest...
...catalogue of last year, must be at once corrected. The university is growing. This year in particular, far from showing any diminution in the number of students, exhibits an encouraging increase of almost sixty. Yet in spite of this correction of the mistake made yesterday, we look forward with cheerful expectancy to the mails which shall bring to us the next week's numbers of our widely scattered and highly esteemed contemporaries. "The decline of Harvard's popularity" will form a large part of their editorial comments, we suspect...