Word: progressivity
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...University and the Freshman crews are preparing for Inter-collegiate races, it may be presumed that the entire college is interested in their progress. Consequently a more detailed criticism of them has been prepared than was given to the three upper class crews in the first part of this article last week...
...position of the Yale authorities that checked our faculty in its earlier attempts to improve athletics, and the Yale papers have never, within recollection, advocated athletic reforms. Under these circumstances an article from a Yale pen, calling for a higher standard in college sports, is a happy sign of progress. Take these two sentences of Mr. Ripley's, for instance: "The leading principle," he says, "in contests between gentlemen, should be that the best man should beat, and in a gentlemanly way." Again, he says that the howling which was a feature of certain base ball games last year, "indicates...
Graduates of the Annex are already becoming useful as educations themselves. Progress accounts for several as follows: "Miss Gregory is a professor in the natural history department of Bryn Mawr College; Miss Byrd is professor of mathematics at Carleton College, Minnersville, and had charge of the changes in the time service. She gained all her practical knowledge in the Harvard Observatory under Professor Pickering while she was a student at the Annex. Another graduate was for a time a professor in Washburn College, Topeka, Kan., and is now in charge of the history department at Bradford Academy, Massachusetts...
Ever since the employment of a coach was forbidden, the students have been dependent entirely on themselves for instruction in rowing. With out a man constantly on hand to watch the daily progress of the crews, every oarsman must feel the responsibility resting upon himself and the great importance of making a careful study of rowing. In this state of affairs a written description of the Harvard stroke may possibly be of assistance. For the benefit of beginners we publish some directions for rowing. In the article an attempt has been made to state the reasons for each...
Alterations are in progress in the interior arrangements of Harvard Hall...