Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Franklin P. Collier, well-known cartoonist and creator of Otto Grow, will speak at the Union on Wednesday, March 24, on "The Trials of a Cartoonist's Life." Mr. Collier has been drawing for 20 years and has spoken at the University and at Dartmouth in previous years. His talk at the Union last year was warmly received by a large audience and Mr. Collier was greatly amused at the time to see the rush at the conclusion of his lecture for the drawings which he had hastily done as illustrations. His lecture this year will be on similar topics...
...Collier freely makes additions to the family whenever he finds it to be to his advantage. In satirizing prominent people or current events he puts a squashed hat on his subject and gives him a name as near the original as possible. The most popular of these are Kidman Grow, for Dr. Cadman, Martin Grow, for Mr. Martin Lomasney, and Homer Grow, for Mr. Homer Loring. Mr. Collier takes great delight in doing this and says it is very easy as we are really all Grows...
...privation is the fruit of faulty reading assignment. Too often smudged excerpts from many and sundry volumes comprise the reading matter of a course. Although each excerpt yields some knowledge of a topic, and the accumulation of them imparts the main facts of the course, the student does not grow wise from perusal of these smudges. The crisp pages, many times outnumbering their much-read brethren, cramp his comprehension within the confines of the smudges...
...days of Aristotle." But Johns Hopkins gave her no diploma. In that day Johns Hopkins gave no women their diplomas. It welcomed her back in 1904 as Mrs. Franklin, lecturer in logic and psychology, subjects that she has administered since 1910 at Columbia University. It saw her reputation grow at home and abroad. Last week, when the diploma was bestowed, the exchange of honors was easily even: for Mrs. Franklin, a Johns Hopkins diploma; for Johns Hopkins, a most distinguished "graduate...
...chewing gum which clicked with a ding-dong rhythm against their plebian palates, monotonous, eternal. I shuddered. Came a voice, "She loves him but she don't want him to know it--see." The comedy followed, a Mack Sennett-- "That's not a real mustache see. It don't grow straight. We only a false one." I asked about for distraction. I found it. A little boy had wormed his way half across the theatre and was approaching his methel Lead first...