Word: progression
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...called progressive country like ours, where invention after invention is developed from the ingenious Yankee mind with startling rapidity, and where institutions of learning are scattered as rapidly as the products of the Patent Office, it is no easy task to keep posted on the latest improvements, and ignorance of the progress of education may sometimes be pardoned. Still, we felt we were behind the times when we were obliged, after reading on a catalogue the name of Drury College, to confess that we had never heard of it before. A perusal of the catalogue has given us some idea...
...Chess is the favorite game. The Seniors have beaten the Juniors, and a game with Cornell is in progress...
...Baxter P. Smith, of the class of '54, will shortly publish a book of 300 or 400 pages with the following title: "The Origin of Dartmouth College, its Progress during a Century, and its Relations to History...
...first piece by the orchestra, Suppes "Pique Dame," there was a slight stiffness and apathy noticeable; but in the progress of the evening this fault gradually wore away, until in the last piece, a galop, from Parlow, the orchestra displayed a fervor and verve which, totally unexpected, was an agreeable surprise to the audience...
OWING to the fact that the Crew have just changed from the machines to the boat, and it is, as yet, too early to criticise them, the regular report of their progress does not appear this week. These reports have been, and are intended to be, criticisms; they have met with sufficient favor to insure their continuance, and accordingly they will be resumed in the next issue...