Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been revived by the remarks of James Russell Lowell, on the classics in his oration, and in view of the fact that Mr. Lowell is one of Harvard's most distinguished graduates, his remarks have a peculiar significance. It is interesting for us here at Yale, to watch the progress of the discussion, inasmuch as Yale has always been on the conservative side in this question, and has been regarded as the leader in the so-called old school of education. This term does not imply that the course of study here is not in accordance with modern ideas...
...three features which yesterday marked the progress of the celebration were interesting and attended by innumerable crowds, and therefore successful in the extreme. The cold, clear weather undoubtedly had much to do with this result, as many ladies and alumni would otherwise have been unable to attend the exercises. Such an accident, however, we should have deemed far from unfortunate, thinking as we are of the fearful crush which accompanied each one of yesterday's happenings. To recount the lectures of the morning service is to tell how enjoyable they were. The full anniversary chorus of the Glee Club sang...
...shall be staring upon us in the glare of the electric light which men choose to call by the great name of science. Either of these ways of looking at it all is possible. But there is yet another and a higher possibility. There may be in all this progress of enlargement which we have traced, a richer and more gracious meaning. It may signify, we believe that it does signify, the partial gradually reconciling itself to the universal; the temporary little by little fulfilling itself with the eternal. There was a discipline of the Christian Church larger than...
...life. Think, then, about the history of our college as we hurriedly traced it. Is its true explanation here? Has all this constant enlargement of its life been moving toward the great truths of the goodness of God and the sublime capacity of man. It must be so. Our progress of these two centuries and a half would be a terrible mockery if it was not so; if, whether we are conscious of it or not, we had not been always advancing towards a deeper, warmer, truer certainty of the divine love summoning us and a profounder assurance...
...Palmer's poem was full of delicate and poetic touches, and showed in its smooth rythmical flow, the hand of one gifted with true talent. The progress of the college which had been rehearsed in the oration was here again presented with that additional beauty which only veritable poetic sentiment and expression could lend...