Word: progress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Three years of progress in many different lines of charity are now to the credit of those who have identified themselves with the Student Volunteer Committee and its work. Entirely unsectarian in its influence the committee personifies the true Harvard spirit, and has entered into a broad field of endeavor with commendable earnestness...
...figures which appear today as to registration in the University, though incomplete, offer a most gratifying bit of concrete evidence as to the consistent progress Harvard is making from year to year. Each increase in numbers has been considerable, and better than that, the increase seems to be constant, so that one is justified in regarding the growth, not as fluctuating and therefore accidental and dependent on outside influences, but as a steady expansion, caused by the constantly growing prestige of the institution...
...Much progress of a most substantial nature has been made this year, and especially in the methods of coaching and training. The development of the team has been worked out along logical lines, and after such a consistent fashion as provides a valuable basis for improvement in the future, if only the system be carried out courageously, little by little, to a higher degree of perfection, profiting by each year's experience. Several long strides in advance have been made. No permanent injuries have been received. The team plays better on the offensive than have most past Harvard teams...
...candidates for the Weld Freshman crew now number about forty and have been divided into four squads all of which are making satisfactory progress. It has been rumored that the squad was to be cut down to eighteen within the next two weeks; but Coach Donovan is so strongly opposed to this that all of the men will probably be kept on as long as the river is open. Donovan is greatly surprised that with so many candidates for the regular Freshman there are not more men taking advantage of the preliminary training given at the Weld...
...choice of Harvard's representatives reminds us forcibly that this year it is of the utmost importance for the University to assert her old supremacy in debating. It is hard to admit, but granted it must be, that for the past two years Harvard has made but little progress in debate in comparison with her rivals. It may be that we reached a climax beyond which it is difficult to go, several years since, and that the other colleges, where debating was slow in gaining a foothold, have been gaining ground faster, but this is difficult to believe...