Word: expand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feeble, sluggish current, but it was constant; and it sufficed to keep history from dying out in the student-consciousness. It would be unprofitable to follow this little classical stream through its meanderings to its present deeper and wider flow; it is enough to say that it began to expand during the tutorship of Charles Anthon, who was called to teach classics at Columbia in 1820. Later on he divided this department with Professor Drisler, but remained at the head until 1867, when he died. Without this steady current of classical and antiquarian instruction which he represented at Columbia...
...hands of our very respectable, as well as very mercenary Cambridge stationers, is nothing short of being mirabile dictu. By magic, like the transformations in a fairy-tale, a few printed sheets, worth (with an allowance for a very respectable profit). about ten, fifteen, or even twenty-five cents, expand in value, or rather in price, to fifty cents, seventy-five cents, and upward. Of course the only cause of this expansion is a very natural one, namely, the heat of the seller's eagerness after the almighty dollar. Heat expands, and cold contracts; so we learned in freshman Physics...
...duty in the guise of "three cheers," it is now impossible to ascertain. The two colleges, however, seem jointly responsible for spreading a depraved taste for "rah" among other colleges and in setting the fashion of distinctive college cheers. Doubtless Yale and Harvard have done much to expand the chests and cultivate the biceps of American youth, but these benefits have been dearly purchased at the price of the invention of the exasperating "rah, rah, rah" which is now heard wherever two or three college students are gathered together...
...will be offered for linguistic and literary study. But in many directions, especially in scientific work, in chemistry and geology and in the school of arts, the instruction is limited. The true friends of the college fear, however, that it does not possess sufficient elasticity and progressive vitality to expand into a great university, responsive to every need of the age, and especially they fear the conservatism of its trustees who do not seem to sympathize with the great intellectual movements of the present century...
...owing partly to the indiscretion of the student, and partly to the meagre information given about the various courses. For the first there is no cure but experience; but for the latter there is a possibility of improvement. To do this it would not be necessary to expand the elective pamphlet into a cumbersome volume, nor do we wish it. In one branch, that of geology, the right step has been taken. A description of all courses given has been published, in which the desired information is to be found. In the first place, the importance of the study...