Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Thomas M. Osborne '84 spoke in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "The George Junior Republic." He showed what the experiment was and what sort of work it was accomplishing. The Republic was not a complete organization at first, but was a gradual outgrowth of a summer camp, established by Mr. William George in 1891. Mr. George established a jury system with a judge and district attorney, and a supreme court of appeals was instituted. In the fall of 1894 Mr. George decided to form a legislature and institute a system of coinage. The thought struck...
...human will is the instrument of the motive and purpose is its outgrowth. Good desires are the raw measures from which purpose is created; the measures of human capacity for desires that are changed into the realization of character are replaced by new desires and so spiritual progress is achieved...
...lecture was concluded with a review of the national popular plays, a priceless gift which the Bretons alone possess, and a unique outgrowth of the mystery plays of the middle ages...
Hagan, the first speaker for Princeton in rebuttal, pointed out that the negative had offered no alternative system of study. The Harvard system has proved successful, he said. It has not produced an undue number of specialists, and is the direct outgrowth of modern scientific advancement. By it are developed the responsibility, self reliance, and individually which characterize the college man who is fit to take that place in life for which opportunities in college mark...
This board is the outgrowth of an idea advanced some years ago by President Eliot and put into form in 1900 by Mr. Seth Low, then president of Columbia. It was formed for the purpose of providing a set of examinations which may be taken by men from any of the schools represented in the Board and which will admit to any of the colleges belonging to it. Those who wish, however, may take the regular examinations provided by the different colleges. Owing to the fact that the present requirements for by the examinations set by the Board in certain...