Word: outgrew
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Tomorrow the morning service at Appleton Chapel will commemorate the birthday of Phillips Brooks, a loyal and distinguished son of Harvard who never fully outgrew his undergraduate days. During the years of preparation in the seminary and his early ministration in Philadelphia he constantly kept in touch with his friends in Cambridge and widened his acquaintance among the undergraduates who followed him. When he came to Boston as rector of Trinity Church his frequent visits to Appleton Chapel brought him in close touch with the students. The service tomorrow morning bears witness of the affection in which his memory...
...summing up, Mr. Murray said that the races which built up Homer, at length outgrew him, but that the end of the epoch was not a mere cessation, but a change to a language less beautiful, but more explicit...