Word: growing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...subway trains in New York, instead of increasing the size of the copper feeder which would be a very expensive step. A number of these Tungsten lamps have already been tried out, but until they are used throughout, the present trouble will remain. The carbon filaments of the lamps grow dim and almost go out when the train starts, due to the excessive voltage drop in the third rail. The superiority of the Tungsten lamp lies in the fact that its candlepower varies considerably less in proportion to the change in the third rail voltage
...sportsmanlike way of dealing with the question of cheering it should not be difficult for the leaders on both sides to meet before the large intercollegiate contests and agree not to cheer at certain specified times. It would not then take long for a body of cheering etiquette to grow up that would put an end to most of the complaints that now arise so frequently...
During the winter term there is a natural tendency to grow sluggish and inactive and to become immersed in study to the exclusion of exercise. Hard study is by no means to be discouraged, but the greatest factor in successful mental work is health, and good health is largely dependent on hard, daily exercise. In many colleges it is not uncommon to make some kind of exercise compulsory throughout the year. At Harvard, however, it is generally considered that men have reached that age of discretion when they are able to look after themselves...
...city has already applied to the University for expert advice, and the other recommendations recorded above are in the way of being carried out. That the bonds between Town and Gown may grow stronger and stronger, and the mutual friendship and service become too apparent to give any one cause to suppose that the interests of the city and University are necessarily antagonistic, is the hope of every intelligent person in Cambridge...
...large that such a public opinion would not have the unity and strength which now obtains at some of the smaller colleges. But that the introduction of the honor system would create a strong and active feeling against cheating is inevitable. Such a feeling would have to grow during the years, but it would, we believe, finally become one of Harvard's grandest traditions, and a unifying element in the College for all time...