Word: progress
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...presidents of all our colleges would follow the example of President Barnard of Columbia, and publish each year a full report on the progress of the institutions over which they respectively preside, it would be an advantage not only to the institutions themselves. but to the cause of higher education in general. Mr. Charles F. Thwing, always an observant critic of college methods, emphasizes this point in a recently published article. President Barnard's report for the last academic year has just been issued, and with is appendices, is a most valuable document. It rehearses the changes and improvements...
Every man at all interested in athletics and the progress of athletic education in this country has no doubt read with great pleasure the vigorous and scientific article of Dr. Sargent on a new system of physical measurements. The CRIMSON takes great pride in being the first paper to publish the anthropometric chart, and thus at the outset acknowledges such a valuable scientific work. The chart is a new departure in physical training and one that will be certain to have great influence in the schools, colleges and gymnasiums of this country; and the men of this university ought...
...richly endowed university is in progress of construction at Worcester, Mass. The plans and intentions of the founder are given in another column. There is a question in the minds of many learned and able men whether the munificent sum donated by its founder, Mr. Clark, could not have been used to better purpose by endowing one of the many small colleges struggling for an existence, or by placing the money in the hands of the trustees of some university like Harvard. Doubtless great good would have been done in either case. Be that as it may, Mr. Clark...
Active measures are in progress at Princeton towards the construction of a base-ball cage...
While other colleges throughout the United States have been disturbed by hazing and rumors of hazing, the students of Princeton have been quietly delving into their books. The boyish pranks that have harassed the progress of other institutions have been unknown there this year.- New York World...