Word: progressism
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...Captain Stevenson and ex-Captain Cowles. Cook is very reticent in giving information about the crew; he does not commit himself even so far as to state its strength compared with those of former years. He went out in the afternoon to look the men over and see what progress they had made with the stroke. it is highly probable that there will be a considerable weeding out of the candidates soon, and the selection of the crew that is to race with Harvard will be made immediately after. The men are in excellent condition, owing in a large measure...
...excavations now in progress in Attica are under the supervision of Mr. Buck of Yale. It will be remembered that last year a theatre, with its orchestra and stage, was excavated at Sicyon. The work at present is going on near the ruins of a Byzantine church. In the apseof the church a choragic monument was found, upon whose architraive were the names of those patrons of the chorus who erected it in commemoration of a triumph in a literary competition. Outside the church a marble seat or throne was unearthed, while near it there were traces of votin slabs...
...advancement that had taken place in the fortunes of Jacob in the twenty years of his absence from home. He had become very wealthy and had grown in experience and in wisdom. This incident from the Old Testament leads to the thought of the attributes of material and moral progress in the lives of Christians to-day. We cannot choose our environments at the beginning of our life. Gracious circumstances are given by God alone, but it is due to human activity and exertion that the growth of the body in material prosperity and of the soul in moral strength...
...President's report for 1886-87," by Mr. Francis Cabot Lowell, an overseer of the University, is an admirable article. One realizes after reading it, but little he really knew of the organization of the University and of the important changes constantly in progress. The University is in a very unsettled state at present, owing to vital reforms now under consideration. The question of conferring an A. B. in three years is touched upon. Every students should make it his business to read this article...
...Weekly declamation were held on Fridays during the college year, in the College Hall, also disputations at which either the president or one of the fellows presided. These declamations and disputations were held once a month "in the presence of the magistrates, ministers and other scholars," to test the progress of the students in "learning and godliness." For three weeks in June each year all students of two or more years' standing were required to attend in the "Hall," from nine to eleven and from one to three on Mondays and Tuesdays for their annual examinations. Visitors might at this...