Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Amherst, Brown, Harvard, Trinity and Yale are represented at the intercollegiate tennis tournament now in progress at Hartford...
...editor of Progress relates a doleful experience of his as a college student: "During the brief while that I honored the University of Pennsylvania with my presence as an alleged student, it was the habit of my class and myself to invest every morning, each of us, in a quarter dollar's worth of roasted almonds, to help while away the weary hours of college life. Just before ten A. M., when the chapel bell would call us from the Continental, Girard, and other neighboring billiard saloons (the university was then on Ninth street, above Chestnut,) we would proceed...
...when a lady does or says any thing in the class room or on the campus which would not become her in the drawing room. All of them show an earnestness for and devotion to their work, which is fit, proper and an honor to any student. - [Letter in Progress...
...writer maintains that the early colleges, founded with this view, have perpetuated this idea of thorough intellectual training, independent of professional study. To account for the modification now in progress in American colleges, the writer assigns three reasons - the increase of wealth in the community and the consequent increase in educational funds, the influence of science, and the progress of religious freedom. He fears that too much of the wealth, however, goes for the erection of showy building and the founding of scholarships, while but little is devoted for the maintenance of the academic staff. The result of this...
...American college, the idea of orderly training in fundamental branches of learning, partly for the sake of storing the mind with useful information, partly for the development of physical, mental and moral training, seems to stand as firm as ever;" and that "the increase of wealth, the progress of science, and the advancement of religious freedom, though temporary disturbing agencies, are likely to be factors of permanent good...