Word: growing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...NINETY-per-cent man at Commons really wants to know, and no fooling, how macaroni does grow, anyway...
Then dark the clouds grow, shutting out from sight...
Mark how the oldest of buildings seem to grow young with surprise...
...hunting-grounds grow green with freshened life...
Perhaps, however, the story is chiefly valuable for affording us glimpses into Yale student life on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. From casual remarks, we gather that whist is a game which is not enjoyed there. Pillow fights are preferred. But even these grow monotonous to the high-spirited Freshmen, and on the afternoon from which the tale dates, we learn that, having stationed watchmen throughout the entries of their building, some Freshmen were indulging in a quadrille. Such an innocent sport is not allowed, however, by the Yale Faculty. It tends directly to worse vices. A step is heard...