Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- We take great pride in our University; we would not go to any other college so long as Harvard existed; we rejoice at the spirit of progress which has put us at the head of all the institutions of learning in this country. But sometimes we complain, and perhaps occasionally are unreasonable in our demands. The college authorities are by no means obdurate, for they have many times responded to the pleadings of the students, but to several of our entreaties they turn a deaf ear. In yesterday's CRIMSON was a communication asking for lights...
...young men of the Indians are at present in some of our Western colleges, and a very few are graduated annually from Hampton College in Virginia. It is safe to say that the average man thoughout the East to-day has but very little idea of the great progress the Indians have been making in civilization and general culture during the last few years...
...Atkins, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in his last report, givest substantial evidence of this progress. The advance shows itself elsewhere in increased knowledge and experience in agriculture, in enlarged facilities for stock growing, in better buildings and houses, and in the adoption of the dress of the white man. The school system is especially to be noticed and the numbers that attend the schools...
...increase in the last year of the number of families engaged in agriculture is 1596, and about 1200 new houses have been erected. Orchards are being planted, farm products marketed and numerous other evidences of thrift show the progress they are making. English only is the language used in the schools, thus the people have a community of feeling and thought, and the common use of the English tongue is the first step in their further education and advancement. The orders issued in regard to this do not as yet affect the preaching of the gospel in the churches...
...alas! unprofitable. We all condemn selfishness in our neighbors and condone it in our ourselves. That is human nature, and Sam Slick says there is much human nature in all men; but we specialize in selfishness, and, like the hub of the wheel, move slowest; and if we progress at all it is by sheer force of inertia...