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President Capen's annual report shows that Tufts College is making great progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/19/1887 | See Source »

Professor Lanman, of Harvard, read some interesting communications from members and friends of the society. Dr. Jackson, of Columbia College, now studying in Halle, announced the steady progress made by Professor Geldner in his great edition of Avesta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American Oriental Society. | 11/18/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- We take great pride in our University; we would not go to any other college so long as Harvard existed; we rejoice at the spirit of progress which has put us at the head of all the institutions of learning in this country. But sometimes we complain, and perhaps occasionally are unreasonable in our demands. The college authorities are by no means obdurate, for they have many times responded to the pleadings of the students, but to several of our entreaties they turn a deaf ear. In yesterday's CRIMSON was a communication asking for lights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/17/1887 | See Source »

...increase in the last year of the number of families engaged in agriculture is 1596, and about 1200 new houses have been erected. Orchards are being planted, farm products marketed and numerous other evidences of thrift show the progress they are making. English only is the language used in the schools, thus the people have a community of feeling and thought, and the common use of the English tongue is the first step in their further education and advancement. The orders issued in regard to this do not as yet affect the preaching of the gospel in the churches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indian Education. | 11/10/1887 | See Source »

...alas! unprofitable. We all condemn selfishness in our neighbors and condone it in our ourselves. That is human nature, and Sam Slick says there is much human nature in all men; but we specialize in selfishness, and, like the hub of the wheel, move slowest; and if we progress at all it is by sheer force of inertia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/10/1887 | See Source »

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