Word: growth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sake of economy have full charge of finances, both in contracting for services and supplies, and in paying the bills. Much of the expense for the Senior Spread consists of items covered by general contracts made by the Class Day Committee under a system which is the growth of years, and has been in full operation since 1896. The introduction of an independent committee simply means the overthrow of this well-tried system, and the necessity of developing a new one, which cannot possibly be so economical or effective. It must then be clearly understood that the Senior Spread Committee...
...much justification for such a committee as for the existence of a "Photograph Committee." The election of a promenade committee would enable the Seniors, as a class, to confer recognition on three more of those classmates, whose prominence in the widening range of student activity which has accompanied the growth of the classes, fully merits such recognition...
...first of the disturbing elements in college education; the elective system and its tendency to obscure the spirit of democracy; and declared the central problem to be, how to make the educational system meet the world's demands for progress on the intellectual side, without endangering the most valuable growth on the moral side...
...closing address was made by the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts. He compared the present size of the society with that which it had when Harvard was smaller and the meetings were held in the basement of University Hall. In the growth of the society with the University there is great encouragement. The danger that exists from over-development of the intellectual faculties to the exclusion of religion can be successfully met by engaging a work like that which the St. Paul's Society provides...
...when the regular requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in all American colleges were three years residence and a fee of five dollars. There existed among the colleges at that time a great deal of hard feeling which amounted to a kind of "armed neutrality." To the growth of the graduate schools, and to the intermingling there of men from different colleges, he ascribed the gradual dying out of that former unfriendly criticism. The old feeling has been supplanted by a rivalry that is most friendly...