Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Graduates of the Annex are already becoming useful as educations themselves. Progress accounts for several as follows: "Miss Gregory is a professor in the natural history department of Bryn Mawr College; Miss Byrd is professor of mathematics at Carleton College, Minnersville, and had charge of the changes in the time service. She gained all her practical knowledge in the Harvard Observatory under Professor Pickering while she was a student at the Annex. Another graduate was for a time a professor in Washburn College, Topeka, Kan., and is now in charge of the history department at Bradford Academy, Massachusetts...
Ever since the employment of a coach was forbidden, the students have been dependent entirely on themselves for instruction in rowing. With out a man constantly on hand to watch the daily progress of the crews, every oarsman must feel the responsibility resting upon himself and the great importance of making a careful study of rowing. In this state of affairs a written description of the Harvard stroke may possibly be of assistance. For the benefit of beginners we publish some directions for rowing. In the article an attempt has been made to state the reasons for each...
Alterations are in progress in the interior arrangements of Harvard Hall...
...public on the stage," and the effort was a complete failure; for the moment he began he became embarrassed and burst into tears. His antipathy to public declamation was unsurmountable; and in bearing testimony to this fact, he once uttered the following words: "I believe I made tolerable progress in most branches which I attended to while in this school, but there was one thing I could not do-I could not make a declamation; I could not speak before the school. Many a piece did I commit to memory, and recite and rehearse over and over again; yet, when...
...gives most carefully drawn pictures of the men who were distinguished in this field. But the study of the past does not blind this author to the demand of to day. The historical development of the last three centuries, he says, may be defined as a slow but steady progress toward the formation of a distinct modern culture, separating itself gradually from the ancient civilization out of which it grew. To day this modern society has reached its maturity. To Erasmus the ancients were models of living; even Goethe considered the Greeks as unattainable ideals of beauty and greatness...