Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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SENIOR FORENSICS.Subjects for third Forensic: Has the progress of the arts and sciences contributed to corrupt or purify morals? Are there any other differences between prose and poetry than those of rhythm and meter? Ought members of the Cabinet to be responsible to Congress? Give Burke's argument in his speech on American Taxation (Burke's Works, Vol. II.) Section 1, today; Section 2, Feb. 28; Section 3, March 7; Section 4, March...
...work of rearranging the college library, which was begun almost a year ago, is now nearly completed, great progress having been made during the vacation. The sixty thousand volumes comprising the library were formerly divided into four divisions, being owned by four different societies; but now the societies have voted that the libraries belonging to them be thrown together and reclassified, so as to form one complete whole, instead of being so widely scattered that, to find one book, sometimes you would be obliged to look in four different places for it and then, perhaps, not find...
...students and townsmen of Oberlin have subscribed over $200,000 towards the temperance reform, now in progress at that place. A resolution was adopted, petitioning the legislature to grant to college towns the right to restrict the sale of intoxicating liquors, and also disclaiming all purpose to use violence...
...this writer says, the great difficulty is to get parents and the heedless public to recognize the great difference between American universities like Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia, and colleges like most of our immature Western sisters; and because of this these institutions are continually retarded in their progress and growth...
...hearing in regard to an elevated railway in Boston is now in progress...