Word: progressivity
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...universities of Norway are now open to women, and any Norwegian girl may strive for the highest degrees that her country has to offer as a reward for scholarship. Harvard and Yale will eventually fall into the line of progress...
...difficult to say what aroused John W. Forney, editor of Progress, to discuss the "shameful outbreaks" of college students, at this time when no outbreaks have occurred for several months. But as Mr. Forney may always be considered a well-wisher of the college world his words deserve notice. He has a good word to say for the college press: "It is pleasant," he says, "to see that the college papers so far from defending the ill conduct of students, invariably condemn it in unmeasured terms. One would suppose that the students so censured by their own companions would guard...
...done nothing in the way of athletic sports and instead of speaking from experience, as we are qualified to do, he merely advances his hypothesis, based upon an imagined condition of facts. We have not found that a fondness for athletic exercises tended to render students indifferent to their progress in class, or influenced them, when exercising their right of selecting subjects of study, to choose easy branches or to diminish their application. On the contrary, we have had to restrain some of our athletes from undertaking more intense application to a wider range of study than we deemed advisable...
...Boston Herald wants the tariff commission to "call upon Prof. Wolcott Gibbs and Prof. J. P. Cooke to show how the apparently insignificant tax on chemicals retards the progress of this country in almost every direction...
...consequently has not made so much progress as some of the others. He has a long reach, which will serve him well when he learns how to use it. At present he does not arch his inside wrist, shoots upward, and generally uses his hands in a loose manner...