Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always been. The ritual of the gab has always been. The ritual of the gates might be modified along with that of the morning bell and with considerably less of the hubbub which accompanied that move. One more gate could surely be sacrificed to encourage more to "enter and grow in wisdom...
...forty years that marked a compete transformation of American life, President Eliot's guiding genius developed Harvard in accordance with the most advanced theories of education. The College grow from a school of some six hundred undergraduates with a limited field of study, to an institution of some three thousand men with a wide choice of elective studies. The Graduate School was provided with excellent facilities for instruction and research, and the professional schools were developed to train men in the theory as well as in the practice of their professions. The Harvard Law School, with the lengthening...
There is no reason for the perpetuation of traditions which grow musty and meaningless through the ignorance of an indifferent student body, and the celebration of an occasion which is as fraught with historical significance as the coming tercentenary should be more than a round of ostentatious ceremony and speech-making led by the faculty and the alumni, with intent to loosen the purse strings of generous graduates. It should be a matter of great interest and pride as well to the students who are very much a part of the oldest college in the country. With a new constitution...
...have rained Lux during a track meet to christen Harvard's old runner "Soapy" Walters, that it takes a warm moist spring to name a "Bud"' Weiser, a long hot summer to make "Dusty'' Rhodes, the big-league ball player, or a Oriental climate to grow a "Fig" Newton; whereas probably any one knows that those names, like Topsy, "just grew." A boy named Pond probably is called "Duck" in grade school, unless unfortunately he should happen to be a "Lily...
...family: "I bought my mother an orange grove near Los Angeles and I gave her a tractor for a birthday present. Her real name is Annette Kisling. My real name is Helen Beck, and I was born in Hickory County, Missouri. My mother has been married twice. We grow the best apples in the world in Hickory County." Her career: "I have been having such a good time." Other Rand observations: "It shouldn't cost anything to go naked. I like to be as naked as possible. ... I think my dance is the most beautiful thing in the world...