Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other studies more important. In the appointment of a Latin orator, Yale boldly avows her intentions not to give up studies which have been of inestimable value to generations of students, just as surely as in each of her many forward steps she shows the spirit of true progress...
...while we are speaking of base-ball matters, it may not be untimely to call the attention to the series of games now in progress, to determine the class championship. This contest is, in its way, quite as important as are the class races, for in both cases the ultimate object is the training of players to fill the vacancies which annually occur in the 'Varsity organizations. Naturally enough, the interest attending the games does not reach in intensity that which accompanies the eventful day of the races, yet we think that it is, in a degree, the duty...
...little inclination to confidently name the winner in the class races. Since Col. Bancroft has ceased coaching the various crews, there has been, it would seem, an element of uncertainty in regard to the final result of the year's work. The upper-classmen who have carefully watched the progress made by the men in training, declare the chances of success are remarkably even, with the odds, perhaps, slightly in favor of eighty-five. The freshman crew, inexperienced as it is, must not be disregarded in naming the boats likely to take second or third place. Eighty-seven...
...removal of the old Holmes homestead. The removal must have cost many a real pang to the lovers of all that is historical and to the admirers of the eminent poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes; but, notwithstanding, it had to be made. Architectural effect, modern improvement, in a word, progress, know no sentiment, and never ask what a thing has been but what it is. To the builders and designers of the Law School (Austin Hall) the Holmes house was an obstruction, an eye-sore; and, therefore, the Holmes house had to go. Yet, it must be confessed, the building...
...nine in the centre, the runners and bicyclers, the tennis players, and last and laziest, the throng of lookers-on on the out-skirts, all make on Holmes on any pleasant afternoon a very fascinating picture, which speaks as well for Harvard's athletic activity as for her intellectual progress...