Word: progressivity
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...easily kept separate, and which ought to be so kept. All experience proves that now and then a student only wastes time by trying to learn a foreign language, and that he may nevertheless attain a fair degree of scholarship in other departments. Some students who make little progress in the dead languages do fairly well with the living. The mind of one learner may be most effectively trained by means of one science, that of another, by another. And it is not asking our college authorities to do an unreasonable thing when we demand that they shall indicate...
...this moment, when President Eliot of Harvard University has gone to Europe for a well-deserved vacation, it would perhaps be not out of place to comment on the tremendous progress which Harvard has made under his administration. The corps of instructors, containing some of the most eminent names in American scholarship and letters has been doubled; the size of the classes has increased from about one hundred to very nearly three; and the great elective system, broadening, expanding and enlightening the minds and purposes has been brought to a state of perfection which Yale and Princeton must follow...
...each other team but one championship game each year, and the college teams seldom meet in practice games. Consequently the addition of one or two more colleges to the four already in the association will be greeted with joy by lovers of the game and those interested in its progress among the colleges...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I have followed with the liveliest interest the discussion now in progress in your columns as to the establishment of a university club, in the hope (which seems less and less attainable as the discussion goes on) that some of its advocates or opponents will kindly define that which they are advocating or condemning. "Y." gives reason against the formation of such a club; "W." reasons for such action; but neither tells us anything more than that the club would or would not accomplish one purpose - the bringing together of professors and students. Both write...
...record. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant fact that the 1358 persons authorized to borrow books from the library carried home 44 books apiece on the average during the year 1885-86, and that this use of the library is increasing. The librarian reports another very agreeable sign of college progress which he mentions that, whereas in 1874-75 only 57 percent of the undergraduates used the library at at all, now nearly 90 per cent use it. The library has lately received large bequests, the income of which will amount to some $20,000, which are not restricted...