Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...concerts the Glee Club of Columbia College introduced a banjo duett, and now the Acta Columbiana desires that the college have a regular banjo club. That would do, but they should have jig dancers also. - [Progress...
...lecture last night was principally an answer to Henry George's "Progress and Poverty." Gen. Walker first commented on the position taken by Mr. Mill in his later years on the land tenure question, and then gave a complete statement of Mr. George's theory of rent and the nationalization of the land. As to Mr. George's three great arguments, he affirms that commercial disturbances are due to speculations in land. This assertion, however, has no evidence to support it, and is opposed to the opinions of all economists. Land is far from being an object peculiarly subject...
...editorial in the Boston Journal of Saturday commends highly the steady progress made by Harvard in the way of offering new courses of study, but criticises the lack of instruction offered in Modern History and Political Economy...
...said, "that whatever has been accomplished by even the highest seat of learning in this country, there is as yet no institution that comes anywhere near our ideal of what a university, in the proper sense of the word, ought to be. We have made great, very great progress during the past twenty-five years, but we have nothing like the great universities of Vienna, Leipsic, Berlin, or even Strasburg, not to speak of Oxford and Cambridge, in England. Ezra Cornell, himself not a liberally educated man, gave one of the best definitions of a university when he said that...
...This is, indeed, very gratifying, and the nation at large can certainly be congratulated that the wisdom of its one military school so far surpasses the combined wisdom and experience of the foremost colleges of the country. Perfect self-satisfaction, it must be admitted, is the surest test of progress and enlightened ideas, and in this respect West Point should be awarded the palm. These gentlemen in their report have passed some overt but severe criticisms upon our colleges, some of which are no doubt very just, but others it must be said smack strongly of that military arrogance...