Word: progressism
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...progress of the Divinity School is described. As to its unsectarian character the report says...
...objects which the university had in view in organizing the new department of Veterinary Medicine are briefly these: To train year by year a few competent and trustworthy practitioners; and to contribute to the progress of a branch of science which deals with many questions of public health and with great pecuniary interests...
...professedly rivals of Harvard, have been founded so recently almost at her doorsteps, must indicate some wide-spread dissatisfaction with the spirit and aims of this university. That there are really objections, however, that are serious and deserving of great concern, I do not believe. Harvard's growth and progress has perhaps been too rapid. These institutions represent a reaction. Cosmopolitanism and non-sectarianism are naturally distasteful to the provincial and sectarian. But it may be that Tufts College and the Boston University do not attempt so much to rival Harvard as to fill a position left vacant and abandoned...
...noted, are simple in their habits and dress, and it is further said the most gorgeous specimens about the college are the freshmen. This latter fact, however, is encouraging. May it not indicate that after the freshman year the "men" get tired of splurging and settle down to work. [Progress...
...ones are being placed in the Union Gymnasium, Boston, and in the gymnasiums at Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Cornell and Amherst, which are being fitted on his plan, under his supervision. Thus Harvard, with the best building in the country, neglects to keep in the forefront of progress in physical culture, and remains stationary, while smaller institutions take advantage of new ideas. The government of Harvard seems to think that a thing once done is done forever, seems to forget that there is such a thing as steady progress." All of which should be interesting and instructive reading for the Harvard...