Word: progressivity
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...about eighty students in residence and makes a reasonable profit, out of which, however, during the past year, over L600 was devoted to reducing the cost of education by means of scholarships, exhibitions, and loans. An additional wing to the north hall and a hospital building are now in progress. Some magnificent donations have been recently made by Mrs. H. Sidgwick and Mr. Winkworth towards the cost of building a biological laboratory. The correspondence classes conducted in connection with Newnham College continue to be very useful in directing the studies of lady students residing at a distance...
...Michigan Argonant gives the following account of Mr. Justin Winsor's address at the dedication of the Ann Arbor Library: "One of the most interesting features of the evening was the address by Mr. Justin Winsor on bibliography in general and the part books play in the world's progress. The address although read, was delivered in an entertaining, conversational manner and was very heartily appreciated by the audience. Taking for his text what some are pron to call "trash," he showed what an important part the lighter varieties of literature play, so that the "trash" of one age becomes...
...largest observatory dome in the world is now in progress of construction at Cleveland, O., for the University of Virginia...
...periodicals there to be found is as follows: Boston Advertiser, Herald, Globe, Transcript, Traveller, Saturday Evening Gazette; New York Herald, Tribune, Times, Post, Truth; Springfield Republican; London Punch, Graphic, Illustrated News and Weekly Times; The Graphic, Life, Clipper, Turf, Field and Farm, Spirit of the Times; The Modern Age, Progress, Puck; New Haven Union; Good Literature. This list will soon be enlarged. The Reading Room is indebted to the HERALD-CRIMSON for several of the above papers. All the college exchanges, by courtesy of the Advocate, will soon be put in the room...
...troops. In this emergency, the Massachusetts committee of safety ordered the students to be removed, and the three buildings, Massachusetts, Old Harvard and Old Stoughton were turned into barracks. No college work was done till the following September. In that month, as the siege was still in progress, the college assembled at Concord where the regular curriculum was carried on till June 1776, when all returned to Cambridge. Meanwhile, as the common soldiers occupied the buildings, the provincial Congress had caused the library and apparatus to be removed to Andover. Here they remained in safe keeping at the Theological Seminary...