Word: growing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interesting event was a match at double balls. This style of shooting has heretofore received no attention at any of the meetings, but it is probable that it will now grow into favor...
Ball nines are being talked of by several of the tables at Memorial. Club tables outside of the hall will also put forward scrub nines as the evenings grow longer...
...Divinity Hall Lecture Course seems to grow in popularity, judging from the audience...
...exactly understand, the next paragraph evidently contains this consolation. "But the world in general is mediocre-in fact an indifferently clever A. B. is not a rare occurrence. In the case of most people, the boundary line of attainment has an extremely short radius. Tearing intellects do not grow wild, and the dilution of the essence of intelligence may be attributed as the result of dividing it among an increasing population...
...mere laziness, aids society in preserving organic unity in the midst of progress. But supposing our ideal has many tendencies. First, philistinism insists upon lower forms of organization, which it tries to render stable at the expense of further progress. But this organization is distinguished by its power to grow. Equally, however, in the second place does the tendency of unwise idealists work against the ideal itself. That society ought to be as united an organism as possible, does not mean that a man ought to try to organize all society in his own way. It is the over-hasty...