Word: progressiveness
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...generally seem to oppose the ultra-conservative policy of their college. The college papers indulge in frequent sarcasm upon the subject and one might imagine from their tone that the condition of affairs at Yale was altogether very gloomy and hopeless, and that such a thing as progress was quite unknown in the Yale faculty. It is quite to the honor of Yale students, as of all college students, that they are always to be found on the side of progress and in favor of more liberal methods. A lively interest is taken at Yale, if we may judge from...
Amherst, Brown, Harvard, Trinity and Yale are represented at the intercollegiate tennis tournament now in progress at Hartford...
College papers are not generally liked by college faculties; a situation which does not seem to give the papers deep concern. In college, as but of it, it is a safe plan not to put yourself in opposition to the papers.-[Progress...
...editor of Progress relates a doleful experience of his as a college student: "During the brief while that I honored the University of Pennsylvania with my presence as an alleged student, it was the habit of my class and myself to invest every morning, each of us, in a quarter dollar's worth of roasted almonds, to help while away the weary hours of college life. Just before ten A. M., when the chapel bell would call us from the Continental, Girard, and other neighboring billiard saloons (the university was then on Ninth street, above Chestnut,) we would proceed...
...American college, the idea of orderly training in fundamental branches of learning, partly for the sake of storing the mind with useful information, partly for the development of physical, mental and moral training, seems to stand as firm as ever;" and that "the increase of wealth, the progress of science, and the advancement of religious freedom, though temporary disturbing agencies, are likely to be factors of permanent good...