Word: outgrown
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...high-school spirit that refused to "men grown" anything but a system of compulsory recitations, and an inefficient and outgrown system of marks on daily recitations, - the spirit that frowned down every effort to introduce more fully the elective system, - this has been so far exorcised that the Senior Class has now the University privilege of voluntary recitations, marks are assigned almost wholly on written examinations, while over two thirds, instead of one half, of the studies pursued in the three upper years are elective...
...where forgiveness is always easy, and repentance never comes too late. Whenever it appears that a college rule or method of general application is persevered in for the sake of the least promising and worthy students, there is good ground to suspect that that rule or method has been outgrown...