Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...What progress...
...only the first of many more such meetings, called to discuss both other as well as similar subjects. It is evident that there is at present little to be done by the students in the matter. We can only await the outcome of the negotiations now in progress between the various college faculties and our own. We certainly hope that the outcome of those negotiations will result in justifying the course of the Harvard faculty and at the same time in satisfying the reasonable demands of undergraduate opinion...
...grounds. Our professors and our magazine-writers have confined themselves in their debates on the subject to what a speaker in the Harvard Union so aptly called the "bread-and-butter" view. "We must consult the spirit of the times in which we live. That spirit tends entirely towards progress, towards the substitution of new and more practical ideas for those which have governed the world for centuries past. We must keep abreast of the modern movement and more especially consult the needs of the time and place in which we live." This is the cry which is raised...
...best advantage in knocking it, now uses every effort to deceive him by curving-I think that is the word-the ball. And this is looked upon as the last triumph of athletic science and skill. I tell you it is time to call halt! when the boasted progress in athletics is in the direction of fraud and deceit." Probably the annals of debate among intelligent men will show nothing richer or fresher than this. Brothers Nichols of Harvard and Moffat of Princeton will hereafter kindly refrain from practising their deceptive arts upon the guileless batsmen. It is wrong...
Constant complaints are being made that the laboratories are not kept open during the time of the mid-year examinations. It does not seem to be necessary that this department should be closed for almost three weeks because recitations are not in progress. Many men finish their examinations from one to ten days before recitations begin again. To them it would be of great advantage if they could spend some of this spare time in the laboratory. Working out experiments in chemistry is slow work at the best, and any extra time which could be thus devoted to it would...