Word: progressivity
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...educational success of the Harvard 'Annex' is now beyond all doubt, and its growth and progress make a public appeal in its behalf necessary. Not only has it justified the confidence of its friends, but it approves itself also more and more to those who were at first inclined to distrust it. The courses of study as well as the instruction and the examinations are substantially the same as those of Harvard College and, thanks to our professors and students, the standard of work has been admirably sustained throughout. As a result of this, the practical aims of the enterprise...
...constitutional aversion" to study, under the elective system. How does he fare under a prescribed system? Is it better that he should be goaded on in those studies which are distasteful to such students, or that he should be allowed to find some agreeable study, and make progress in it? The elective system was not planned for this class of students. The majority of college men have not a constitutional aversion to study, and it is for them that an elective system presents peculiar advantages...
...tennis tournament is in progress on the Divinity Hall courts...
...never before has a class as a whole been able to avail itself of the advice of the President in his official capacity, and the custom once inaugurated ought not to be discontinued. If there is one gentleman in the college government who ought to be interested in the progress of the studies of the students, that gentleman is the President. And President Eliot has by this public action shown that he fully shares in the sympathy with the students which the professors have shown. Every freshman should be led to consider carefully the selection of studies which he makes...
...appeared last Saturday. It contains several notable changes and innovations. In the first place, it is larger than last year by eight or ten pages, a circumstance chiefly due to the addition of all the freshman electives. Many of the changes in the different departments are strong evidences of progress, while they all show that attempt is made to satisfy, as far as possible, the demands of the students. It is quite true, however, that the clamorers after courses in Stenography, Journalism, and Common Law have still to wait another year at least, contenting themselves with the advances that have...