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Word: growed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they wish co-operation, (but in a less expensive form than at present), they can have it by raising the sum before Monday night. Otherwise the society dies,-and it may be a long time before men are found here, energetic enough to start another. Meantime, Cambridge tradesmen will grow very, very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/31/1885 | See Source »

...invitation be adopted by which the Committee shall be able to weed out the more unreasonable,-and we predict that the thing will go along smoothly and quietly, until in the course of a year or two the students will be educated up to the thing, will grow accustomed to it, and soon something of real value will result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/8/1885 | See Source »

President Seelye says of compulsory exercise in the gymnasium, "by close statistics carefully kept for twenty years, it appears that the health of an Amherst College student is likely to grow better in each year of his college course. The average health of the sophomore class is better than that of the freshman, and of the junior better than that of the sophomore, and of the senior best of all. This average is shown to have come from an improvement in the physical condition of the individual student, and not from a dropping out of the course of those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/29/1884 | See Source »

...workmen have not vacated a few of the rooms. A full description of the building, its contents and the uses to which it is to be put. The new tennis grounds behind Divinity are not in very good condition for play this fall as the grass was permitted to grow long during the summer. One court has been marked out which is very level but with poor turf. Next spring with proper attention and cutting of the grass the field ought to furnish students with a dozen good courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Changes About the College. | 9/27/1884 | See Source »

...signs of a diamond. Botany appears to supersede all other field sports, and has prevailed to such an alarming extent of late, that the faculty are said to have thoughts of prohibiting its practice within certain limits of the college, that the grass may have a chance to grow. The college grounds far exceed those of Harvard in extent and include a lake and adjacent pond. The buildings while few in numbers, greatly surpass both in appointment and convenience those of our Alma Mater. The larger part of the college work is carried on within one large building which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley College, | 9/27/1884 | See Source »

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