Word: progressiveness
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...freshman crew is making decided progress...
...progress has been made in the railroad conference in New York toward a settlement of difficulties...
There is now in progress at the Harvard College Observatory, under the immediate charge of Mr. S. C. Chandler, says Col. T. W. Higginson, an important work which must be carried on by the separate efforts of many persons who need not be experts in astronomy or possessors of large telescopes. Many observations are indeed needed which can best be made with an opera-glass or field-glass, or even with the naked eye. Professional observers would no doubt make these observations better than others, but such observers can rarely find time to make them; whereas useful contributions...
...have any pedagogical relations whatever with women students, it ought to be willing to conduct them on the same terms that are granted by Oxford and Cambridge - universities that were venerable with years and honors before Harvard was born into a land which parades its radicalism and its intellectual progress. It is time that the hobbledehoy twaddle about the dangers of this co-education were stopped. It is not now an open question; Cambridge and Oxford settled it some time ago. At these universities young women live in their own "halls" under the guardianship of wise and good women...
...views of the New York Tribune, as to the establishment of a women's college under the auspices of Harvard University, and the admission of women to lectures and recitations on equal terms with men. Indeed it seems very possible as an ultimate result following in the line of progress that Harvard may in the course of time be forced to yield to the pressure from without, and adopt this reform. That such an event is in the near future we do not believe, and it is possible that the "sweet reasonableness of waiting" for this change may, after...