Word: progress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...done nothing in the way of athletic sports and instead of speaking from experience, as we are qualified to do, he merely advances his hypothesis, based upon an imagined condition of facts. We have not found that a fondness for athletic exercises tended to render students indifferent to their progress in class, or influenced them, when exercising their right of selecting subjects of study, to choose easy branches or to diminish their application. On the contrary, we have had to restrain some of our athletes from undertaking more intense application to a wider range of study than we deemed advisable...
...Boston Herald wants the tariff commission to "call upon Prof. Wolcott Gibbs and Prof. J. P. Cooke to show how the apparently insignificant tax on chemicals retards the progress of this country in almost every direction...
...made excellent progress, but is inclined to catch too easily, and does not keep his back straight enough. On the whole, however, he has a very good style, and with a little more firmness would show about the best form in the crew...
...also made good progress in the past few weeks, but there is yet room for improvement. His arms and shoulders, in particular, need attention, the former being somewhat bent and the latter being carried too high. He also swings out of line, and does not get his back on the stroke with snap enough...
...consequently has not made so much progress as some of the others. He has a long reach, which will serve him well when he learns how to use it. At present he does not arch his inside wrist, shoots upward, and generally uses his hands in a loose manner...