Word: progressivity
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...young men of the Indians are at present in some of our Western colleges, and a very few are graduated annually from Hampton College in Virginia. It is safe to say that the average man thoughout the East to-day has but very little idea of the great progress the Indians have been making in civilization and general culture during the last few years...
...Atkins, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in his last report, givest substantial evidence of this progress. The advance shows itself elsewhere in increased knowledge and experience in agriculture, in enlarged facilities for stock growing, in better buildings and houses, and in the adoption of the dress of the white man. The school system is especially to be noticed and the numbers that attend the schools...
...presidents of all our colleges would follow the example of President Barnard of Columbia, and publish each year a full report on the progress of the institutions over which they respectively preside, it would be an advantage not only to the institutions themselves. but to the cause of higher education in general. Mr. Charles F. Thwing, always an observant critic of college methods, emphasizes this point in a recently published article. President Barnard's report for the last academic year has just been issued, and with is appendices, is a most valuable document. It rehearses the changes and improvements...
Every man at all interested in athletics and the progress of athletic education in this country has no doubt read with great pleasure the vigorous and scientific article of Dr. Sargent on a new system of physical measurements. The CRIMSON takes great pride in being the first paper to publish the anthropometric chart, and thus at the outset acknowledges such a valuable scientific work. The chart is a new departure in physical training and one that will be certain to have great influence in the schools, colleges and gymnasiums of this country; and the men of this university ought...
...richly endowed university is in progress of construction at Worcester, Mass. The plans and intentions of the founder are given in another column. There is a question in the minds of many learned and able men whether the munificent sum donated by its founder, Mr. Clark, could not have been used to better purpose by endowing one of the many small colleges struggling for an existence, or by placing the money in the hands of the trustees of some university like Harvard. Doubtless great good would have been done in either case. Be that as it may, Mr. Clark...