Word: progressivity
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...copy this morning from the Nation of last week a most interesting and instructive comparison of the progress made by Harvard and Yale respectively during the last fifteen years. The moral conveyed by this article is obvious...
...nearly horizontal line in the lower part of this diagram shows that the increase at Yale is from 500 to 563, or 12 1-2 per cent., while the dotted line of Harvard's progress indicates an increase from 419 to 1,068. or 155 per cent. In other words, the mere gain at Harvard amounts to a greater number of students than Yale has ever had in its Academical Department! If for ten years longer these ratios of increase should remain unchanged, in 1895 Harvard College would be teaching over 1,700 students, while only about one-third...
...before, the dotted lines represent Harvard's progress, while the white line measures Yale's standstill or decline. The latter's freshman class of this year is only 134, or 22 less than entered in 1865; while 258 entered this year at Cambridge, or 133 more than twenty years ago. It is impossible to mistake the import of these figures; more students are evidently being attracted to the Massachusetts university than to the Connecticut college...
...state, and while our examinations are frequently valueless in the determination of work done, these attempts can be of only limited importance, but they show the spirit which is working for the final good, and should make us feel that we still have a place in the march of progress...
...upon their honor. If, however, there is no honor or sense of manliness left, the college authorities must be called upon to enforce the discipline which they maintain in other entries of the college buildings. At this very time, when so much is being said of the progress of our university, it is certainly humiliating to descend to a discussion of the best method of dealing with a set of school-boys...