Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rescinded. Huddleston's withdrawal, said Anglican Bishop Richard Ambrose Reeves of Johannesburg, was one of the heaviest blows yet suffered by South Africa's nonwhites. Said the London Daily Mirror: "It is as if Gideon, about to overthrow the altars of Baal, had suddenly been withdrawn to grow watermelons...
...Curiouser and curiouserl" cried Alice, when, after eating the cake in the rabbit's cavern she began to grow nine feet tall. While most Harvard people would correct Alice's grammar, and blame Malthus rather than the cake, the note of incredulity usually remains as they watch the University's policy toward the rapidly rising demand for a Harvard College education...
...bewilderment itself. Although neither President Pusey nor other administrative officials have charted any sort of University policy toward expansion, it seems widely assumed that the University must and will increase its enrollment. But this tacit and passive acceptance of expansion is very dangerous. Such a vague commitment to grow could lead to the slow disappearance of integral parts of the Harvard education which will not be missed until they are gone. The Administration's policy should be clear and precise and must attach a price to growth: maintenance of adequate facilities, including libraries and laboratories; avoidance of dormitory overcrowding...
There is a group of faculty members and students who argue against numerical growth, not only because they feel that the University would be unable to retain its distinctive advantages under an expanded program, but also because they think Harvard really has no responsibility to grow. The University's primary obligation, they argue, is to maintain its own educational quality unblemished. While history may easily prove this group right about the college's chances of successful expansion, their advocacy of retreat from the problem is unfortunate. Their arguments seem as snobbish as Jonathan Swift's "modest proposal" that poor children...
...Chalk Garden prove a legitimate contrast and offset to a certain muted reality. Not without cost has the companion achieved a green thumb for people as well as plants, where the other characters all show gloved or clammy hands; not without reason has she been able to make things grow in a garden built on chalk...