Word: growing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are few things which will not grow tiresome if brought continually to our notice. The subject of "Religious Decadence at Harvard" is no exception to this rule. The Nation, we are glad to see, has published in its current issue, a complete refutation of the article on the subject published previously. We hope that the discussion will now be allowed to rest. Considerable feeling of a rather sanguinary tinge has already been aroused. As we do not wish to incur the expense of defensive armor, we hail this new expression of confidence in the religious training of Harvard...
...affairs began to grow worse, murder, robbery and brawls increased. The Californian camp of '48 was one of men who had no intention of making California their home and only full of a desire to make money. Although heroism and generosity sometimes prevailed, yet there was no stable system. Upon this fragile framework fell the crowd of "forty miners," and the result, as may be imagined, was most disastrous...
...Privileges in government are like sciences, they grow rather than spring into existence at a single bound. Thus it has been with English liberties and the English Parliament. It is to the humble Witenagemote that the cause may be traced of the present influential gathering at Westminster...
...writer does not presume to say that it is not, to advance the higher education of women, surely no better and no more promising means could be taken. A college for women under the shadow of Harvard University, with no restrictions from poverty and narrow quarters, would grow rapidly into an institution which would not only rival but even out-strip any similar institution in the country. In whom and how soon is the Annex to find a benefactor...
...objection to a possible abuse of the elective system and not to the system itself. As students realize more and more fully the true meaning of a free choice of studies, and give more and more thought to their selections, the evils resulting from an inconsistent combination will grow less and less. A study of the records of the college for the last few years will convince any candid reader that this thoughtless union of irrationally connected subjects is fast becoming a very unimportant exception to the general rule...