Word: growed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...keeps her so wretchedly poor. For, to suppose that Harvard is just rolling in wealth and doesn't know what to do with her cash is about as correct as that divinity-school estimate of the college quadrangle. Harvard would be rich if she were not ambitious. Lazy colleges grow rich. But at Cambridge some very live men know that power means duty-that money brings opportunity and responsibility. If they see anything good in "Fair Harvard," they see nothing to make men vain, but only the good begining of something which they intend to make better. Harvard is still...
...lady's umbrella, which she boasted she had had for twenty-seven years, "and it's never been wet yet." Some libraries are kept like that. But here they wish to see books worn out, so far as honest use will wear them. New atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, speedily grow ragged, and the bookbinder has a tremendous bill every month...
...that we doubt if it will ever make its appearance again as a potent factor in Harvard life. The system of compensation which has been in vogue here for some time past was as abnormal a system as could well be conceived. How it was possible for it to grow up and flourish in the rank luxuriance it enjoyed perhaps will remain a mystery forever; for it is hard to conceive of any cause which could logically bring about a result so pernicious. We shall think little of that in the future when the type of man who received distinction...
Friday's Yale News says that "the chances for the success of our foot-ball team this year seem to grow rather less each day." It then goes on and gives its reason as the weakness of the team behind the rush line...
...auri sacra fames that has hitherto consumed all energies here will in future be tempered by an intellectual growth which, while by no means lessening the activity and enterprise that have developed Butte's mineral resources, will introduce a new element of culture here that it is hoped will grow with that vigor which has characterized similar efforts elsewhere...