Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...devoted his collegiate course to gaining high academic honors, has finally cosented, after much urging, to use his athletic abilities for the benefit of the university. He will be a valuable acquisition. Trainer Murphy has been hard at work with the men, and they have been making rapid progress, especially in starting...
...correspondence chess game is in progress between Princeton and Cornell...
...people come many tablets with hymns and psalms to the gods, some of the psalms having passages strikingly similar to the Biblical psalms. The theological system, with its greater gods and its demons, can be pretty thoroughly made out. In the sciences, especially mathematics and astronomy, considerable progress was made. Numerous astronomical reports exist. There are also writings showing the beginning of grammar, legicograhy, medicine, botany, zoology and geology. The enormous number of books relating to the social and private life of the people is reserved for the next lecture...
Besides the players there were several spectators, who amused themselves alternately with watching the progress of the games and playing whist among themselves, and altogether the evening proved a very pleasant...
...Wilkinson, who is at present coaching both the Hasty Pudding and the Sophomore Theatricals, came from England solely for this purpose. Under his management both plays are making unusual progress...