Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...system of classroom and departmental libraries is especially interesting. The best and most fruitful work done at the University is done in these libraries, and it is hard to understand how we ever got along without them. It is perfectly easy to see, however, that they are the natural outgrowth of the method of teaching here. In the teaching of every department, the library has been made the central fact about which everything else revolves. To do good work, to make any headway at all in most courses, the student must have recourse to the libraries. The class-room...
...years ago, when the tennis league was first organized. The leading players in college at that time found that if Harvard intended to make a good showing in tennis, she must adopt in this, as in other sports, some organized system of development. The tennis league was the direct outgrowth of this idea. What good it has accomplished cannot of course be measured; but it is very certain that the number of good tennis players at Harvard is greater than it has ever been before, and is still on the increase. From this large number of good players, rather than...
...which refers to wools and manufactures of wool. Mr. Kittredge is particularly well qualified to speak on this subject, having made it an especial study, and his talk proved very interesting. He first spoke on the tariff on wool and woollens historically, showing how the present act is the outgrowth of the wool schedule in the Act of 1867. He then took up the present schedule and discussed it at length. He did not attempt anything more than an interpretation of the meaning of the paragraphs of the schedule, preferring not to criticize the schedule at all. His exposition...
...were surprised to read in the New York and Boston daily papers of the past two or three days that a game of foot ball was to be played between Harvard and Princeton at Madison Square Garden. We suppose this untruth is an outgrowth of the proposed game between the Boston Athletic Association and the Manhattan Athletic Club; as some of the men to represent Boston were from Harvard, and some of those to represent the Manhattan Club were associated with Princeton. At the time of our reading these surprising statements we were struck with the feeling that...
...International Journal of Ethics is the title of a new quarterly of which the Oct. number has been issued, being an outgrowth and enlargement of the Ethical Record. This periodical is conducted by an editorial committee consisting of Felix Adler, Ph. D., New York; Stanton Coit Ph. D., London; Professor G. Von Gizycki, Berlin; Professor Fr. Jodl, Prague; J. S. MacKenzie, M. A., Manchester; J. H. Muirhead, M. A., London; and Professor Josiah Royce of our own university...