Word: growing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bowing to the necessities of the situation, lowering her standard for the first degree and then proving her devotion to learning by making her opportunities for advanced and graduate work richer and wider than they have ever been before. If she does the former college men will grow to be fewer and fewer in proportion to the population. If she does the latter, they will hold their rightful numbers, and her second degrees will increase in value as a badge of true learning...
...sure that those who took part in them do not realize that as the officers of the Hall cannot act as policemen, good order in the Hall depends not a little upon the self-control of every member. The tendency towards disorder is one which will grow inevitably if a distinct effort is not made to avoid all such unnecessary demonstrations as those we have mentioned. We ask those who have taken part in these demonstrations to think the matter over, and we are sure that they will not again be guilty of the actions of which complaint has been...
...university and to the Pacific slope what the Arnold Arboretum here in Boston is to be to Harvard University and the northern Atlantic slope. Senator Stanford has decided to devote to the arboretum as much space as is needed to contain every tree that can be made to grow in that climate with the aid of irrigation. The trees are to be planted in open order, and arranged with siestas and views, so that the place will have the features of a pleasure ground in addition to its scientific character...
...training of men for journalistic work simply because there has never been a strong demand for education in this particular field. The real basis of the antagonism is clearly seen by the second writer. College men thrown suddenly into the world cannot well picture that world, until they grow to be thoroughly acquainted with it. No matter how much a man may know of history and political economy, he cannot succeed in the active life of journalism until he becomes practical...
...doubtlessly a great source of annoyance and inconvenience for those who rely upon gas-light by which to do their evening reading, to have the light grow so dim that they can scarcely distinguish the letters before them. Such a state of affairs must, however, be borne with the best grace possible for the next two or three days. A leak has been discovered in one of the principal gas mains in Cambridgeport and while this is being repaired, the college dormitories are dependant upon the gas supply brought over from East Cambridge. The work of repairing has been rendered...