Word: progress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Progress has been made in the laboratory work on the road building stones of the state. Experiments of this kind are carried on at Harvard University in the Lawrence Scientific School, whose dean, Professor N. S. Shaler, is a member of the Highway Commission. The chief aim of these inquiries has been to determine the qualities which constitute fitness for road making. This will be of value to the Commission in enabling them to utilize the road material near at hand, and thus lessen the cost of construction. As this phase of the work progresses maps are made showing...
...CRIMSON has made arrangements so that the score by innings of the Harvard-Princeton game will be announced by black board while the game is in progress. Tickets will be put on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's on Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. Entrance price will be twenty-five cents and reserved seats will be twenty-five cents extra...
...Stevenson, who has been rowing No. 4, was compelled to lay off on account of an attack of tonsilitis, which it is hoped will not prove severe. The apparent epidemic of sore throats among the different class crews, especially in the junior boat, has seriously interfered with their progress...
...lectures were given in November, 1890, upon plans which had been formulated by Dr. William Pepper. On Dr. James devolved the labor of giving permanence to a movement, which many feared was only to prove a short-lived outburst of enthusiasm. Each year since has been marked by steady progress. From the seven courses of lectures in the short season - two months - of 1890, the number grew to 87 in 1891, 105 in 1892, 111 in 1893, and 135 in 1894. Dr. James looks upon the record of last year as a very gratifying one, the percentage of increase being...
...auspices in eleven other states - New Hampshire, Massachusetts. New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, and Louisiana. Dr. James estimates that over 20,000 people attended the various courses during the last year. The object was to reach all classes of people. During the progress of the enterprise it has been found that the women were the first to appreciate its advantages. Year by year, however, the circle has widened, and appreciable progress has been made in the direction of interesting in the work other classes, including teachers, clerks, business men, mechanics, and factory operatives...