Word: progression
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sheffield Scientific School. The average weight of the candidates for the crew was 153 pounds. The men were quickly thinned out, those who were physically unable to endure the training being dropped. The work has consisted of running, light exercise in the gymnasium and regular rowing in the tank. Progress in mastering the stroke is of course very slow as the men with the exception of the few who rowed on the fall freshman crew are entirely without previous experience. Coach Cook, Captain Whitney and D. F. Rogers '98, have done most of the coaching up to this time...
...fourth lecture on Greek Art last night Mr. Robinson spoke on the grouping of figures. He outlined the progress of the groups from the stage in which it was a mere juxtaposition of independent figures to that in which, in statues and in friezes, it acquired a unity of whole. He emphasized the part which shadow effect was made to play in the Greek friezes, and spoke in closing of the painting of Greek sculpture...
...colleges have learned to realize more and more the necessity of consistent and methodical restraint, if athletics are to be retained in their normal position, subordinate to intellectual work. Each has, in its own way, tried to supply the needed regulations for itself. The result is that much progress has thus been made. But at the same time, and for the very reason that each college has thus worked on its own lines, the conflict of various opinions and interests has caused great confusion. The different systems of restraint are so difficult to bring into cooperation, that the diversity...
...remembered in considering the future of the association that solid progress must come slowly. There is to be no sudden change in athletic affairs. Such an institution will grow into usefulness by a gradual process...
...fundamental laws and of the relation between employer and employee. The cooperation of labor and capital comprises a partnership, but the unfortunate name of service is still given to the share of one of the partners. We find the term on all hands; a standing obstacle to our progress. The great strikes that have arisen in this country, have not come from questions of wage, but from procedure. Why should the employers refuse to let their books be examined by their employees, except from that pride that comes from assuming mastership...