Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shooting men of the university. Its matches have been fairly well arranged to meet the needs of the members, and the score sheets have shown good lists of entries and some excellent totals during the meetings of the year just closed. Considering the difficulties which invariably impede the progress of any new enterprise we think it may be said that the club has thus far succeeded in fulfilling the purpose for which it was founded, and we feel that the gentlemen who have conducted its affairs may congratulate themselves upon the excellent results of their labor. The present year, however...
...existed before, and this better feeling has added largely to the successes of the year. Harvard is better for it intellectually, as well as morally, permanently as well as temporarily. We believe that any extension of these co-operative relations would be attended only by still greater successes and progress...
...Yale college have been considering a change in the appointment of commencement speakers. It is intended to abolish the ancient institutions of salutatory and valedictory addresses. The first step has already been taken in the abolition of the Latin salutatory. This is again an advance in the direction of progress. An institution which has long ceased to be useful, except in these colleges which still retain the old prescribed system can hardly be necessary and should at once give way before the new order of college study. In a system which has abolished that course of instruction of which...
...educational success of the Harvard 'Annex' is now beyond all doubt, and its growth and progress make a public appeal in its behalf necessary. Not only has it justified the confidence of its friends, but it approves itself also more and more to those who were at first inclined to distrust it. The courses of study as well as the instruction and the examinations are substantially the same as those of Harvard College and, thanks to our professors and students, the standard of work has been admirably sustained throughout. As a result of this, the practical aims of the enterprise...
...constitutional aversion" to study, under the elective system. How does he fare under a prescribed system? Is it better that he should be goaded on in those studies which are distasteful to such students, or that he should be allowed to find some agreeable study, and make progress in it? The elective system was not planned for this class of students. The majority of college men have not a constitutional aversion to study, and it is for them that an elective system presents peculiar advantages...