Word: progressivity
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...excellent performances of the Harvard men who competed in the B. A. A. games Saturday evening was most gratifying. Winter indoor meetings are of course chiefly useful as a means of breaking in inexperienced men. As a gauge of progress made the games are interesting, and though the conditions are very different from those which exist in the open air contests, Saturday's meeting speaks well for the prospects of this year's team. We congratulate Captain Bigelow on the good beginning he has made, and hope that he may keep up the gait...
...Sheffield Scientific School. The average weight of the candidates for the crew was 153 pounds. The men were quickly thinned out, those who were physically unable to endure the training being dropped. The work has consisted of running, light exercise in the gymnasium and regular rowing in the tank. Progress in mastering the stroke is of course very slow as the men with the exception of the few who rowed on the fall freshman crew are entirely without previous experience. Coach Cook, Captain Whitney and D. F. Rogers '98, have done most of the coaching up to this time...
...fourth lecture on Greek Art last night Mr. Robinson spoke on the grouping of figures. He outlined the progress of the groups from the stage in which it was a mere juxtaposition of independent figures to that in which, in statues and in friezes, it acquired a unity of whole. He emphasized the part which shadow effect was made to play in the Greek friezes, and spoke in closing of the painting of Greek sculpture...
...colleges have learned to realize more and more the necessity of consistent and methodical restraint, if athletics are to be retained in their normal position, subordinate to intellectual work. Each has, in its own way, tried to supply the needed regulations for itself. The result is that much progress has thus been made. But at the same time, and for the very reason that each college has thus worked on its own lines, the conflict of various opinions and interests has caused great confusion. The different systems of restraint are so difficult to bring into cooperation, that the diversity...
...remembered in considering the future of the association that solid progress must come slowly. There is to be no sudden change in athletic affairs. Such an institution will grow into usefulness by a gradual process...