Word: grown
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...would derive more benefit from it than the student. A few hours spent in such a way is certainly more profitable than a continual "dropping in" at some popular resort. Foreigners are wont to remark that America has no places of historic interest, and many men have grown up accepting the apparent truth of this assertion without seeking to disprove it. So long as we continue to agree with this prevalent opinion so long shall we hear these unpleasant things said about us. Let us then as students endeavor to destroy this belief, and our efforts will bring...
...facts of interest. Of what is going on at other colleges most of us are in the dark. Our exchanges furnish us with an occasional ray of light on the subject, but these are not seen by the college reading world until a long time after the news has grown literally old. The proposed system of correspondence, if perfected, will give us full and reliable accounts of anything of interest in our sister colleges. Now, of all times, do we need this, for never before have there been so many intercollegiate contests. Last year, when twelve colleges announced their intention...
Then comes the dinner! How charming! work has grown merriest play...
...possessor of one prize it highly. With what interest in my Freshman year did I sound the sheathing in my room to ascertain the possibility of one being secreted behind it; how expectantly did I wait for the unceremonious entrance of one through my window. Many students have grown to consider them as their Penates, and look with disgust upon the destroying hands of the Goths and Vandals, namely, the College Carpenter, and a dealer in second-hand goods, who never leaves anything in a room the furniture of which he has purchased, but the paper on the wall...
...College, regarded as a place of instruction and discipline, has grown and improved so much during the last twenty years that it is not unreasonable to hope that it will soon get entirely rid of a certain schoolboy spirit, which is not found in the professional schools, and which seems to have its root in the enforced attendance upon recitations, lectures, and religious exercises. This enforced attendance is characteristic of American colleges, as distinguished from European universities, and was natural enough when boys went to college at fourteen or fifteen years of age. The average age of admission to Harvard...