Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...larger colleges, and we feel positive that it would never meet with success at Harvard. However, it may prove the best policy for Amherst, and it has probably not been adopted without due consideration on the part of the faculty. We shall watch its progress with interest. The system is introduced at nearly the same time as our own new system, and the merits of the two can be very easily compared...
...Yale alumni of Boston and its vicinity will have their annual dinner at Young's Hotel on the evening of Monday, Feb 12. The Hon. Levi C. Wade will preside. President Porter and Professor Cyrus Northrop have accepted invitations to be present. Arrangements are in progress, contemplating the largest gathering of Yale men, and the most pleasant one that has ever been had in Boston...
...current number of the Popular Science Monthly contains the rectorial address of Dr. Alexander Bain to the students of Aberdeen University, Scotland, taking for his subject "The University Ideal." Prof. Bain gives a description of the origin of the university system, of its gradual growth and progress up to the present day, and an exhaustive discussion of what in his opinion constitutes an ideal university. The university proper can hardly be dated back earlier than the twelfth century; and the important particulars in its first constitution were these: First, the separation of philosophy from theology. Aristotle and the awakening intellect...
...Life, Progress says: "Those interested in the paper are, I understand, Harvard graduates, and it must be said that Life has the look of college journalism about it," - which may be taken as a compliment to college journalism or otherwise, as you choose...
...departure has recently been made at Johns Hopkins, which consists in establishing several courses of lectures by professors and students on subjects with which they are especially familiar. Two such courses are now in progress - one on physiology and the other on chemistry...