Word: progressivity
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...Lambert's free lecture in Lyceum Hall next Tuesday evening. The N. Y. Herald says of his system: "Prof. E. Lambert's efforts are both instructive and entertaining; the study of the French language being made at once attractive and easy by his method of treatment, and for rapid progress is unexcelled...
...above will be of interest to all who have watched the foundation and progress of this school, so largely the portege of Harvard. At the recent meeting of the committee of the school in New York (Prof. J. W. White, chairman), the following facts were reported : "The six pupils now in the school comprise two who hold the degree of A. B. from Harvard, one graduate of the University of Vermont, and another from the same college who is a candidate for the degree of Ph. D. at Harvard, one from the University of Virginia and one from Wesleyan. Other...
ITHACA, Nov. 13, 1882. The spirit of progress is still the vital principle at Cornell. Animated by this spirit, which has pushed our youthful university into the front rank of American colleges and forced them to needed reforms, and fearing that it was growing dormant in the breasts of the authorities, certain public-spirited individuals recently demolished a wooden bridge leading to the campus. This action was expected to bring forcibly before the proper persons the fact that the bridge was not in keeping with the other property of the university. Like many radical reforms, this did not meet with...
...there is one subject above another upon which the average Cornell student delights to discourse, it is the many new improvements in the matter of buildings, new courses, etc., now in progress, and especially of the possibilities of the library, which has already attracted much attention, and which probably has the largest endowment of any similar institution in the world. The one person above all others to whose munificence these possibilities are due is the late Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske. As a fitting resting-place for her remains, those of her father and of Ezra Cornell, there will be erected...
...could be brought to see this, we think there would be a great advantage all around. Time spent on the rowing weights before the end of the mid-year examinations is wasted, for in the two weeks before the beginning of the semi-annuals the crews make but little progress, which is entirely lost in the hurry and excitement of the examinations. Furthermore, too long a period on the rowing weights is apt to grow irksome to men accustomed to rowing on the water. As the river seldom opens before the second week in March, four weeks on the rowing...