Word: progressivity
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...circumstances; and for the general prosperity of the college, and for the additions that have been made to the college buildings and funds, and the advances that have been made in the curriculum under the guidance of his policy, which was neither conservative where conservatism could retard safe progress, nor radically progressive. But with his withdrawal from the presidency, he will not sever his connection with the college as an instructor. Long may he live to teach before his classes, and to impress, by his example, those lessons of culture, generosity and uprightness, for which his life has been eminent...
...education on the one side and another spirit of education on the other. The colleges cannot prosper unless the schools also prosper. The colleges of New England do not keep pace with the growth of the population. Not only is the growth of the colleges alarmingly small, but the progress of the preparatory schools is equally unsatisfactory. President Eliot believed that it is a relaxation on the part of the colleges to admit students by certificate from a large number of schools, and makes admission far too easy...
...shooting men of the university. Its matches have been fairly well arranged to meet the needs of the members, and the score sheets have shown good lists of entries and some excellent totals during the meetings of the year just closed. Considering the difficulties which invariably impede the progress of any new enterprise we think it may be said that the club has thus far succeeded in fulfilling the purpose for which it was founded, and we feel that the gentlemen who have conducted its affairs may congratulate themselves upon the excellent results of their labor. The present year, however...
...existed before, and this better feeling has added largely to the successes of the year. Harvard is better for it intellectually, as well as morally, permanently as well as temporarily. We believe that any extension of these co-operative relations would be attended only by still greater successes and progress...
...Yale college have been considering a change in the appointment of commencement speakers. It is intended to abolish the ancient institutions of salutatory and valedictory addresses. The first step has already been taken in the abolition of the Latin salutatory. This is again an advance in the direction of progress. An institution which has long ceased to be useful, except in these colleges which still retain the old prescribed system can hardly be necessary and should at once give way before the new order of college study. In a system which has abolished that course of instruction of which...