Word: growning
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...wish, through your columns, to draw attention to a flagrant abuse, on the part of certain participants in athletic sports, of their privileges in these sports. Of late years it has grown to be the practice for an athlete, upon the completion of a season in which he may have been engaged, to consider himself justified, for the purposes of "recuperating his broken health," in absenting himself, in nine cases out of ten quite unnecessarily, from Cambridge for a substantial period...
...Harvard Dining Association is in an embarrassing situation, the importance of which has been very little realized, but which has grown more and more serious despite the untiring efforts of those, responsible for its management. The failure of the present plan to appeal more generally to the University has led some even to suggest the undesirability of maintaining large dining associations at Harvard, a suggestion which none of us will accept without far more conclusive proof than we yet have...
President Eliot said the past fifty years have been the most eventful in Harvard history. In that time the number of students has grown from 734 to 4012; the number of teachers has increased in even greater proportion. The character of education has also changed. There has been a great change in the class of students, for fifty years ago there was a great uniformity of pecuniary condition. Now the expenses of a part of the students have been multiplied several times...
...universal language because of strife and misunderstanding that arose between people of his native village who spoke four different languages. When he grew up, he formulated an artificial language, Esperanto, but met with little success until 21 years ago. Since then, interest in the new language has grown steadily, and today there are over 700 Esperanto societies and more than 400 magazines spreading the language over the world...
...general is a last despairing cry. The latter requirement, however, demands more than the humorous eye: there must be oddities-rough edges in tradition, custom, manners, personalities to catch it. Here it is that the Lampoon is at a disadvantage. Life with us is too decent orderly, conventional, grown-up man- nish, and of the world worldly. There are few persons who of their won selves write caricature, merely ex-officio, in salt without meat. Again, very little that is ridiculous happens, and when it does, we are apt to regard it only in its ethical aspect, and solemnly approve...