Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...concerned. There has been a remarkable growth of mutual confidence and friendly feeling between the faculty and the students, and especially within the last two or three years, and this action is not brought about by any misunderstanding which it is necessary to arbitrate, but it marks the progress of an era of prosperity already far under way. The movement for a committee of this kind was started two years ago, and a resolution favoring it was then issued by the faculty, but some delay was caused by referring it to the board of trustees for ratification. The plan, however...
Princeton has seventeen alumni associations and the formation of a new one in New York is now in progress...
...society is slightly in debt but the purchase of the new building is mainly accountable for this deficit. The steady advance in the number of students, from 55 last year to 73 this year, and the increased interest shown by outsiders in the progress of the society are very favorable indications for its future enlargement. There is more community of feeling between the students than in former years although they have come together from thirty-two different colleges and they have an annual "Commemoration Day" observed in the same manner as Class Day. They also have clubs for debate...
...number of students come to Harvard from the far West, the more does it seem that the faculty should acknowledge the fact by granting a longer duration of the Christmas recess. The faculties of other colleges, although suffering rather severely from conservatism, have, notwithstanding, had enough foresight, progress and liberality to recognize truths which have failed to receive attention here. The vacations given at Harvard have always been awarded grudgingly. The effect of this policy is to compel a student to cut a day or two if he intends to spend any time at all at home and means...
...bombs, made up the equipments of enthusiastic freshmen. On the steps of University cheers were given for the eleven, individual players, the classes, and finally for Harvard. Then a rush was made for Jarvis field, the scene of the victory, and a good-sized bonfire was soon in progress where lately the Yale rushers were in vain attempting to keep the ball away from their goal-posts...