Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tennis tournament is in progress on the Divinity Hall courts...
...never before has a class as a whole been able to avail itself of the advice of the President in his official capacity, and the custom once inaugurated ought not to be discontinued. If there is one gentleman in the college government who ought to be interested in the progress of the studies of the students, that gentleman is the President. And President Eliot has by this public action shown that he fully shares in the sympathy with the students which the professors have shown. Every freshman should be led to consider carefully the selection of studies which he makes...
...appeared last Saturday. It contains several notable changes and innovations. In the first place, it is larger than last year by eight or ten pages, a circumstance chiefly due to the addition of all the freshman electives. Many of the changes in the different departments are strong evidences of progress, while they all show that attempt is made to satisfy, as far as possible, the demands of the students. It is quite true, however, that the clamorers after courses in Stenography, Journalism, and Common Law have still to wait another year at least, contenting themselves with the advances that have...
...abused, but the abuses of the elective system at Harvard are the exception, and not the rule. These eyils exist under other systems as our contemporary admits. Lazy men will be found at Harvard as well as at Princeton, but the system that allows the vast majority to make progress in the field of learning for which one is naturally fitted should not be condemned thereby...
...conducive to success in her past policy, she has discarded many of the old ideas of education as antiquated and unprofitable, and blended the advantages of the two systems with marvelous effect. Let us hope, then, that every change which is inaugurated may call to mind that stirring watchword-Progress...