Word: progressivity
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...After the war, the great colleges advanced with a step which kept pace with the highest progress of the age. Yale's new president. with his youth, experience, administrative talent and popularity, became the responsible manager of all departments and the sole administrator of the young republic...
...tank often runs dry, to the great annoyance of those who use the water. If the bath-rooms are moved, a large shower-bath will be retained in the gymnasium. Plans for the addition have already been made, but proved unsatisfactory, and the new ones are in progress. Work will be commenced at the earliest opportunity, and it is intended that there shall be no grounds for complaint next year...
...hear Mr. Clarke's lecture on steel bridges. In a few words, President Eliot introduced the speaker, but omitted, as the latter facetiously remarked, to mention the fact that he was a graduate of Harvard. Mr. Clarke began by stating the importance of modern bridge-building and the rapid progress which has been made in the branch within the last fifteen years. One of the greatest undertakings of the age is the spanning of the Hudson at Poughkeepsie, by a massive bridge, 3094 feet, and with the approaches, one and one third miles in length. The object of this great...
College men should be interested in the exhibition of Mr. Donaghue's statues, now in progress at Horticultural Hall. While the figure modeled from Sullivan cannot fail to attract attention as a wonderfully realistic presentation of the modern athlete, as contrasted with the Greek types with which we are so familiar, the other statues show inspiration, of a higher sort. It is indeed encouraging to see classic subjects treated by an American sculptor with such freshness of conception and such spirit and success in execution. A more charming figure than that of "The Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus after...
...reviewing the past season of foot-ball, nothing stands out so clearly as the immense progress the game has made in popular favor. While men who have been actual players will always enjoy anything that resembles their favorite sport, the large majority of people demand, and have been demanding for years, certain reforms in foot-ball, before installing it finally in their minds as the sport par excellence of the Thanksgiving season...