Word: growing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Should not the janitors, then, be instructed to remove all these private advertisements? The task of keeping the boards clear of such foreign matter would not be great, for those who place it there would soon grow weary of supplying the janitors with cardboard, when once it was understood that their placards would not be allowed to remain...
...members of the university at once, however, was out of the question, the president was forced to meet each faculty in turn, and discuss the affairs relating to its department. This meant a great waste of time on the president's part, and tended to make the various departments grow farther apart, rather than closer together. One of the first steps taken by President Hadley was to bring about such a change that all departments might profit equally, and, at the same time, a great deal of the wear and tear of management be avoided. During the past week...
...valuable gift is stated in a letter to the President and Fellows as follows: "To show in a simple but useful way our appreciation of the fact that courses in modern Scandinavian literature are now regularly offered by the University, and to express our hope that they may steadily grow in favor...
...education at Harvard, complete co-education will slowly establish itself here," and that we shall lose our "traditional school of manly character." The menace is shown to be real and present. Our only hope, the writer says, lies in the possibility that by proper endowment Radcliffe may continue to grow as "a sweet, sound, every day college for girls," and may cease to encroach on Harvard ground...
Lectures at the Arnold Arboretum.Mr. J. G. 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 the Trees and Shrubs which grow in New England. They will be held on Saturday mornings at 10 o'clock and on Wednesday afternoons at 3 o'clock, beginning on Saturday, May 7, and closing June...