Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...went off and lived as a hermit beyond the boundaries of civilization. The instructor may say, and possibly even think, that he does not read the newspapers, but you could corner him on cross-examination. It is a silly boast, and especially silly when coming from a college instructor. - [Progress...
...individual or what a community may best do for the superior education of this country is to create a high type of it. It is not news to you, gentlemen, that there is not now one single adequate American university. We know that our beloved institution has made progress, great progress, during the last fifteen years, but still she is far from the institution that is needed in this country. And whatever we can do to make her more worthy of our nation we do also for every other institution of superior education. You can see how it has been...
...reports of the secretary and treasurer of the Co-operative Society, which appeared in our Wednesday's issue, give a very clear idea of the progress this society has made and of the benefit it has been to the university. In the secretary's report are seen the amendments of the constitution made by the board of directors. All these seem to have been well advised. The total cash that has passed through the hands of the society in its first year amounts to $14,763.87, and the treasurer estimates that the saving to the members of the society...
...Globe, Saturday Evening Gazette, Saturday Evening Traveller, Woman's Journal, Weekly Magazine, Unity, Index, Louisville Courier Journal, Cambridge Tribune, Vicksburg Herald, New York Weekly Witness, New York Clipper, Spirit of the Times, Turf, Field and Farm, Harper's Weekly, Life, Punch, Puck, London Illustrated News, London Graphic, The Nation, Progress, Good Literature, Episcopal Recorder, Musical Critic and Trade Review, The Wheel, Bicycling World, San Francisco Argonaut. Monthly-Musical Herald, Wheelman, Modern Age. College papers-Yale Courant, Record and News, Princetonian, Tiger, Columbia Spectator and Acta Columbiana, and all the periodicals of thirty-five other colleges, including Amherst, Brown, Williams, Dartmouth...
Princeton's "annual billiard tournament" is now in progress...