Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hope I have made my position clear. I do not condemn Harvard's social system. On the contrary I think it most excellent. But I do condemn that pernicious, though temporary, outgrowth of it-snobbery...
...Society was organized in March, 1882, being the outgrowth of discussions in the college papers and at public meetings upon the prevailing high prices of students' necessaries. The need of an organization that could furnish many goods at prices only slightly above first cost, and many others at fair retail prices, was so generally felt in college that there was not wanting sufficient enthusiasm to start, at once, a store partially stocked, and managed by directors chosen from the students and instructors, the Directors providing plans for work and a business manager. From a very small beginning the business...
...year 1866, the senior class, after much discussion, decided that the increasing size of the classes demanded an additional senior society. The outgrowth of this decision was the formation...
...discussion of punch in its relations to "Bloody Monday Night." A communication from "An '88 Man," which will be found in another column, contains a strong appeal for the discontinuance of the customary freshman entertainments. The effort to do away with this annual celebration is by no means the outgrowth of any recent spirit of reform. Protests have been made before, and often, too, against the further continuance of the custom. Yet the fact remains that "Bloody Monday," though not the night of terror that it once was, is still a Cambridge institution. Whether or not it will...
...Because at present our ideas of the functions of a university are entirely different from that of the Germans. Our system is the outgrowth of the needs of the country. It has been adapted to the formation of national character. It is truly an American system...