Word: growing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attracts a more intense interest than can fairly be asked for intellectual work. No outsider can follow the processes which lead to literary or scientific success, or can feel with him who wins it all the eager joy of victory. It is difficult to appreciate and generally impossible to grow enthusiastic over the competition in which the brain prevails. We believe, however, that even now the sober praise which Harvard men never deny to scholarly ability is far more significant than the lavish commendation which they so recklessly bestow on the favored athlete. The latter is an affair...
...Jack will conduct a series of lectures and field meetings at the Arnold Arboretum during May and June for the purpose of supplying popular instruction about trees and shrubs which grow in New England. They will be held on Saturday mornings at ten o'clock and on Wednesday afternoons at three o'clock, beginning on Saturday, May 4, and closing June 22. The class will assemble each day in the lecture room of the Bussey Institution, where a review will be given of certain groups of trees and shrubs. It will then adjourn to the plantations and the nurseries...
...moral hold which the religion of Jesus has upon the minds of men comes from the fact that it appeals to their hearts. It supplies to men just the inspiration which they need in every-day life, and as they continue to love God they will grow into the fullness of the divine life...
...first feeling aroused by this prospect will with many be one of keen indignation, and with all one of extreme regret; but the latter feeling will grow at the expense of the former. However distasteful the opinions of the Faculty may be, no one will question that they spring from a sincere devotion to the welfare of the University. It is, however our belief, as it has been, that the action of the Faculty is mistaken and ill-timed, and that with the present widespread disposition to reform intercollegiate. football, the game could actually be brought back to its proper...
...space during the waning summer days, to grasp for the last time the gentle hand, to bear his final greeting to his friends. But as the door closed between us, though it closed forever upon the visible presence, it left impressed upon the heart an ideal image, destined to grow forever more majestic and alike more tender as it approached more closely to the real...