Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should be developed, their higher courses of study pursued; in other words, a city is the place for a university. As a university, I see no limit to the possibilities of Columbia's power and influence, if she keep her face turned unflinchingly in the direction of progress...
Last evening Gen. Francis A. Walker lectured to a large audience in Sever 11 upon "American Manufactures." The lecturer thought that without protective tariff our country would have made greater progress. In inventive genius we are to other nations as giants to pigmies. The American, however, will waste even if he has to work harder. The lecturer's closing remarks were greeted with enthusiastic applause...
...some of our leading colleges. The support of Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Cornell and Brown, was secured for the plan, and immediate arrangements were made for its execution. This work has been steadily prosecuted since, until now the committee are prepared to make a public statement of the progress of the plan and the prospects of the school. The provisional scheme of the school is briefly this...
...question of peculiar importance and interest to every student of Harvard is who shall be dean of the college faculty next year. Scarcely any matter can be of more importance, for the effective work and progress of college life, than the election of a competent and suitable man for this position, by the overseers. While almost every one would have some particular choice, if the election rested with us, none will be disposed to grumble at the actual choice, provided that some one reasonably popular and efficient be selected. It would be mere presumption to claim that the students...
...seven years ago, leaving the medal to his widow, Mrs. Ann Bull Washington, of whom it was obtained by fifty citizens of Boston, who subscribed a sum of money in the total sufficiently large to induce the widow to part with it. While the civil war was in progress George Lafayette Washington lived eleven miles from Harper's Ferry, on the main road to Winchester, where the belligerents were continually ousting one another's forces. Lest any mishap should befall the medal, it was placed, with its original case of green sealskin lined with velvet, in a wrapping of cotton...