Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Examinations are now in progress and the interest in them overshadows the interest in everything else. The last examination will be held on Friday, and Saturday is the first day of Commencement...
...annual examinations and exercises of the West Point Military Academy are now in progress...
...celebrations, the faculty will let the matter drop. In order to insure the continuance of all intercollegiate games, the students have themselves taken the proposition in hand and have set about organizing a special college police force, to do duty in the yard when any celebration is in progress. F. Stevenson, the captain of the crew, has been appointed chief of the college police, and he is busily engaged in making preparations to preserve order when another victory comes along. There is now very little doubt of any further interference of the faculty, and the ball games will take place...
...upon the subject, "College Standards of Duty." College standards are more artificial than those of the outside world, and are often directly opposed to them. Not long ago the petty larceny of sign stealing was encouraged by college opinion, and deceiving instructors was not regarded as dishonest. In the progress of time, there has been much improvement, and the general sentiment of college has become much manlier and more sensible. The growth of athletics has assisted considerably in producing this change for the better. There is no more conservative body than the undergraduates of a college. They are slaves...
...words, but we do not begrudge the effort to unravel it. Mr. Bates's poem "The Sleeper," develops an original idea. The metre chimes well with the sentiment of the tale; the lines convey the folly and the utter hopelessness of the magicians wish to stop the progress of time. The number closes with the charming bit of verse "Vanitas...