Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undertaking for so young an organization, but will, we believe, if successful, place the club on a firm footing, and give an additional impetus to the study of elocution at Harvard. Now that a public performance has been decided upon, the entire college will feel an interest in the progress of the play, and take great pride in its success. The participants, in turn, must regard themselves as the representatives of the dramatic talent at Harvard, and recognize the full responsibility resting upon them. Under the able instruction of Mr. Jones, with the assistance of Prof. Child in regard...
...decided liking for some special department of knowledge, in addition to a liberal education and good character. At the first assignment of fellowships in 1876, there were one hundred and forty-two applicants, representing forty-six colleges. The fellowships are in some cases renewable to the same holders. The progress of the fellow is tested from time to time by the writing of a thesis, or the delivery of a lecture. The system has been attended in its workings by great success, and the great encouragement to original thought and investigation, has produced results very gratifying both to the holders...
...university which has for some years been in progress at Tomsk, in Siberia, is approaching completion. $549.000 were assigned to the commission charged with carrying out the work. The Government contributed 300.000 rubles, and the remainder of the money has come from private sources. It is intended that the university shall have a complete staff of professors...
...Boating is booming. In other words boating has taken a fresh start under the new management, and while the progress has been slow and the innovation has been made carefully, yet the progress is substantial and the changes are practical. The new constitution lays stress upon the formation of a university crew and it is the intention of the association to carry this article into effect. Financial arrangements are being perfected and already give assurance of success. It is certainly commendable to place this branch of our athletics on a firm footing, and when our alumni see that...
...gigantic prescriptions, in which a liberal quantity of honey and syrup were suggested as medicine for the Telegraph and Argus, and a wholesale dose of arsenic and strychnine as a settler for the Age. They held their saturnalia between the acts, and observed a respectful silence during the progress of the play. When the curtain was going up, order was called by a rap or two with a gigantic thigh bone welded by the leader of the party...