Word: progress
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...contests. The pleasant memories of similar meetings before the Yale football game last fall are too near to make it necessary for us to urge men to attend the meeting tonight. Although we do not believe that much organized and "pumped" cheering is necessary or desirable, especially during the progress of a baseball game or track meet, we do feel that regular singing by a large crowd of undergraduates creates good feeling and helps to fill in what would otherwise prove awkward pauses in the sport. But to be effective and to compare favorably with the other colleges, our songs...
...obligation under which the Medical School has been placed by his long and devoted service as professor and dean. The clinical resources of his own department have been built up and admirably organized through his skill and public spirit; and during his administration the whole School has made remarkable progress as regards the requirements for admission and the efficiency of its methods and equipment. The University and the community share in the fruits of this important service...
...superficially and are impressed, from the cause which we know even less. The statement that we listened to Mr. Aladyin "with awe and admiration" is true--and sad, because it shows that we are willing to applaud without understanding. We know that Russian autocracy is opposed to progress and freedom of thought, and that Mr. Aladyin is a reformer. That he is the kind of reformer whose methods make almost impossible the task of the real reformers, the men of education and high ideals, men like our own President and the members of his Cabinet, we do not stop...
Dean Briggs acted as toastmaster, and introduced Mr. Arthur Foote '74 as the first speaker. He spoke on the great progress made by the Musical Department since he was an undergraduate and emphasized the need of a new building which should be the seat of all musical activity at Harvard. Dr. S. W. Langmaid '59 spoke on the same general topic, laying especial stress on the fact that as Harvard was the first college to recognize music among its courses, and allow students to take music courses both for entrance examinations and for degrees, she should be the first...
...Lane '81, to secure the services of Mr. Gilbert Murray, M.A., Oxford '92, LL.D., Glasgow '00, and from 1889 to 1899 Professor of Greek at Glasgow, for a course of six lectures on Greek Traditional Poetry; a chapter in the History of Greek Poetry in relation to the progress of the Human Race. The lectures will be given in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum on the evenings of April 29, May 1, 3, 6, 8, and 10 at 8 o'clock, and will be open to the public. Announcement of the subjects of Mr. Murray's lectures will...