Word: grow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...every man in the University to the opportunity the Prospect Union here offers. As a social service work it is interesting and stimulating. As practical field work in education it is invaluable. Finally, we think that any man who elects an instructorship in the Prospect Union will soon grow to recognize his course there as the most permanently valuable one he is "taking" that college year...
...mind, the stratagem succeeds too well, and they become so haughty and arrogant to one another that their fathers are compelled to tell them the truth. Then they separate, and Percinet sets out into the world to seek adventure. Bergamin and Pasquinot, thrown into too close intimacy, soon grow tired of one another's company, and quarrel, but when Percinet returns, with his fond illusions shattered, matters arrange themselves to the satisfaction...
...process of turning the waists land into fields salable for athletic purposes is very slow. In order to get grass to grow it has been found necessary to lay the subway dirt underneath the ground that is already there. This, however, has become so salty on account of the marsh that even after it is built up, it will have to lie fallow for a year or two to allow the salt to wash out. It will then be seeded and when the grass has taken firm root the field will be ready...
...enough from the "first crew," and the few who were there were unwilling to make up a boat with those who had been rowing on their second crew. For this reason the men have been needlessly missing valuable practice, because of a certain athletic snobbishness. Class spirit cannot grow well under such conditions...
...immediately sought after and comparatively well paid. It is not so easy for the newly graduated student to secure the necessary means of living, that this point is to be neglected in the choice of a profession. But aside from the remuneration, the civil engineer sees his works grow under his hand and finds in his profession constantly new incentives for original and enduring achievement. When a practical engineer of national reputation who has been actively connected with the construction of the greatest engineering project of our day--the Panama Canal--speaks in the Union tonight, he should command...