Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that he is governor of the state of Massachusetts, let him receive it, but let the degree be conferred upon the man and not upon the office." And that is how it should be. To hand it out according to any other reasoning destroys whatever worth it may possess. [Progress...
...attend them. The instructors have been selected without regard to the institutions with which they have been connected ; but merely for their special qualifications. Every student will be required to pass an examination by correspondence given at intervals, so that in this way the instructor can ascertain the progress of each student...
...Hamlin really cares nothing about investigating the effect of diet upon his pupils, but that his object in setting up a collegiate weighing-machine is to substitute weighing for the old-fashioned methods of examination. The weighing-machine will afford, in some respects, a fair test of the progress which the students have made in the higher studies-such as base ball and rowing-and Dr. Hamlin may intend to assign collegiate honors to the students who succeed in training themselves down to the best possible weight. There is a good deal that is plausible in this view...
...scholars full of enthusiasm for study waiting to join the school. He made at great length an interesting statement of the historical advantages and stimulating associations connected with classical study in Greece and set forth the true aims of the school. It is, he said, in the spirit of progress and belief that we cannot afford to be behind other nations in improving our methods and enlarging and elevating our instruction. The Archaeological Institute has founded this school at Athens. We Americans need such a school even more than any other nation, for Germany, France and England are all within...
Prof. Whitney of Harvard a couple of years ago delivered an interesting and valuable lecture upon the great pyramids, before the students in Sanders theatre. The progress of investigations into Egyptian archaeology during the past year has been very rapid and several important discoveries have been made. Later study has also led Prof. Whitney to further results, and a new lecture has been prepared by him embodying the results of his recent investigations into this subject. It is to be hoped that Prof. Whitney can be induced to deliver this lecture before the students during the present season. We would...