Word: progressivity
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...best method to adopt, in the improvement of style in writing revives the subject of college reading. A well read college man is a rarety; almost an anomily. It is true that we cannot all with Mill read Thucydides in the cradle, nor do we care to read Pilgrims Progress until the trumpets do indeed "sound on the further side." But there is a mean which every earnest student can and ought to cultivate in the matter of reading beyond the narrow limit of his courses. As the two prime reasons for reading are that we may gain information...
...proof of the interest taken by the students in the affairs of the University. We doubt if in any former year the report has been as generally circulated in the college as at the present time. It is certainly gratifying to think that such interest is taken in the progress of the University, and especially in the operation of the elective system, to the discussion of which, so large a part of the recent report is given. Indeed, a lack of interest in these matters would not be very complimentary, in what it would imply to students at Harvard...
Arrangements are in progress to secure the services of Dr. A. H. Frothingham, Jr., as professor of Archaeology at the Princeton Art School...
...custom at the University of Pennsylvania, called the Cremation, that it is interesting to know and to remember as one of those college ceremonies that are rapidly dying out in our higher institutions of learning as they gradually advance nearer to the state of the ideal university. Although such progress works incalculable good, it has, I think, this one drawback; that it involves a loss of many customs that showed, if you will, a more boyish and consequently less properly developed state of feeling, but that still constituted in a great measure that part of college life which one cares...
...numbers are in any way a proof of progress, Harvard has certainly advanced. And we think that the day, if not now present, is surely not far distant when she will in every way be fitted to stand as the typical American university; when at Harvard can be found the most earnest students from all parts of our land...