Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this moment, when President Eliot of Harvard University has gone to Europe for a well-deserved vacation, it would perhaps be not out of place to comment on the tremendous progress which Harvard has made under his administration. The corps of instructors, containing some of the most eminent names in American scholarship and letters has been doubled; the size of the classes has increased from about one hundred to very nearly three; and the great elective system, broadening, expanding and enlightening the minds and purposes has been brought to a state of perfection which Yale and Princeton must follow...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I have followed with the liveliest interest the discussion now in progress in your columns as to the establishment of a university club, in the hope (which seems less and less attainable as the discussion goes on) that some of its advocates or opponents will kindly define that which they are advocating or condemning. "Y." gives reason against the formation of such a club; "W." reasons for such action; but neither tells us anything more than that the club would or would not accomplish one purpose - the bringing together of professors and students. Both write...
...record. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant fact that the 1358 persons authorized to borrow books from the library carried home 44 books apiece on the average during the year 1885-86, and that this use of the library is increasing. The librarian reports another very agreeable sign of college progress which he mentions that, whereas in 1874-75 only 57 percent of the undergraduates used the library at at all, now nearly 90 per cent use it. The library has lately received large bequests, the income of which will amount to some $20,000, which are not restricted...
...have from time to time noted the changes which have been made in the freshman crews; but have not as yet spoken of it critically, except in a general way. The candida have now been in training nea four months, and although their progress on the machines has been as rapid as is usual for freshman crews, there is one thing, and a most important thing, that they have not yet learned to do, that is to keep time at the chest-weights. This may seem a matter of slight consequence to the men; but they will learn that time...
...certain large minded and fair minded love of truth. Lux et veritas is our motto. But in the search after truth there are two tendencies. The seeker for fight, who finds a form of thinking handed down by the fathers, may accept it because of its very antiquity. Progress is the law of the world, let me be free from prejudices of old ideas. These tendencies are inharmonious. But the fair and large-minded man lies between these two. The man who follows that is a creature of hope and remembrance. He does not think that the best...