Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual report of the curator (Mr. Alexander Agassiz) of the Museum of Comparative Zoology for 1882-1883 has lately been published. It contains an interesting report on the beginnings and progress of the museum, together with an excellent heliotype of the buildings; also reports on the various departments by the heads of those departments...
...students connected with the college proper is given as 972, showing a gain of more than forty over last year; the whole number in the university is 1522, a gain of nearly a hundred over last year. This shows a most gratifying increase and is indicative of the rapid progress that Harvard is making. The new School of Veterinary Medicine has now become an actual member of the university and for the first time a list of its students is given. It appears also that the old Lee Prizes for reading are no longer to be offered for the future...
...Still I do not see how Harvard can escape a scolding whenever any of its students get off upon a frolic. It is not impossible, also, as is charged, that it sometimes happens that Harvard is blamed for the doings of youths who have no connection with it. [Progress...
...balue which, being partial, is unsatisfactory; in the case of the vast multitude it ends in irremediable waste. To myself, trained in the system for years, and training others in it for years being one of those who succeeded in it, if that amount of progress which has been thought worthy of high classical honors in two university may be called success-influenced, therefore, by every conceivable prejudice of authority, experience and personal vanity in its favor. I can only give my emphatic conclusion that every year the practice of it appears to me increasingly deplorable, and the theory...
...surprised to see Progress retailing such silly talk as the following : "There is a street-car conductor in Chicago who is a college graduate, and can also converse in all the modern languages. He might, you know, be a college graduate and still be ignorant of French, German, etc. This conductor (and he is not, it would be safe to wager, the only one of his kind in the country) does not agree that his education has been of important service to him in his struggle for existence. When in need it did not secure for him a better place...