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Word: progress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...growth of historical studies at Harvard College is a subject of special educational interest, for it illustrates a process of academic development which is now in progress throughout the country at large. This process marks the rise of modern studies, as distinguished, on the one hand, from classic humanism, our inheritance from the Renaissance, and, on the other, from theological training, our inheritance from the Middle Ages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Study of History at Harvard. | 12/14/1887 | See Source »

...this country next spring. Efforts are being made in England to organize a gentlemen's team of cricketers, similar to the eleven which visited this country in 1885, to play matches in Philadelphia, New York and Canada. Correspondence in regard to arrangements for the visit is now in progress. An eleven from the North of England has also arranged to visit this country next summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/9/1887 | See Source »

...more appreciated as time rolls by, is distinctly shown by the increasing tendency of the journals and magazines of the day to criticize everything connected with college life. It is with the intention of putting plainly before all the students here just what role Harvard is playing in the progress of educational advancement, what her needs and what her advantages are, that we print in another column an excellent and unbiased view of the situation, written by Mr. Badger, who has for years filled an important post in the college library. Perhaps nothing in the article is more striking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/7/1887 | See Source »

President Capen's annual report shows that Tufts College is making great progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/19/1887 | See Source »

Professor Lanman, of Harvard, read some interesting communications from members and friends of the society. Dr. Jackson, of Columbia College, now studying in Halle, announced the steady progress made by Professor Geldner in his great edition of Avesta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American Oriental Society. | 11/18/1887 | See Source »

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