Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish in another column the announcement that Columbia will hereafter admit women to the School of Arts upon the same footing with men. This is a step toward progress, if we may judge from the high success which has been attained in similar actions by other universities. We need not refer to the work at present done by women at the Boston University and the university of Michigan. Sufficient proof that women can compete successfully with men upon a collegiate basis is found in a comparison of the work done by men and by women at those universities. Few will...
...more points in regard to our future swimming-bath may be of interest to the college. Some time ago a friend of the university made a generous contribution toward the building of this bath. Thereupon the college authorities placed in the hands of a contractor the matter of investigating the water supply which could be obtained for the baths. The result of this investigation was the boring of the wells which we have been watching from day to day near the gymnasium. It was found that abundant water could be had from these wells for the purpose. That the bath...
...manly spirit. But on Tuesday a severe blow was dealt to progress at Harvard. The undergraduates have been given one more privilege, and this time they have been found wanting. Hereafter the faculty we fear will remember the mistake which has been made, and curtail further advance toward student government...
...valuable changes in the classical department. The general scheme of the courses in Semitic and Indo-Iranian languages stands practically unaltered; but in the Greek and Latin department many well advised innovations have been made. The most important of these is that the higher courses in composition which count toward final honors have been so arranged that Latin and Greek composition together form a half course. Hitherto the candidates for final honors were obliged to spend what amounted to a full course for at least two years in this branch, now practically the same work is covered in two half...
...faculty has again placed the control of the college yard in the hands of the students for the present season. Although this is entirely in harmony with the attitude of the faculty toward the students for some time past, still we must feel it very gratifying to have such matters left to us to whom we believe they rightfully belong. The slight disturbances in recent celebrations make this action all the more welcome. We look forward, then, to enthusiastic and impressive celebrations, which will lose nothing of their spontaneity by being systematic and orderly...