Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inner calmness that lets him ycut through crisis and make his decisions from a base of mature reflection. Ike likes to cite Napoleon to the effect that the true genius in war is one who can do the average thing when those around him grow hysterical with emotion or fright...
...things. Since they are not confronted with financial or professional pressures, they can spend time wondering about themselves. They exist in a community of intellectual superiors; upperclassmen, professors, men who have written good books; and they begin to wonder whether there is anything they can possibly achieve. Their questions grow increasingly insistent as they progress towards graduation and the choice of a career. Some people are temporarily paralyzed by the discordance they sense between themselves and the community around them. If they cannot amass all the available information, are they capable of learning anything...
...undergraduates to ceaseless complexities, also provides them with unlimited freedom of retreat. Within this large community, anyone can associate himself with a group of like-minded friends, and comfortably ignore experiences which might radically challenge him. If the CRIMSON editor, a clubbie, or a Tocsin member does not grow very much in wisdom by remaining inside his chosen organization, he at least avoids the risk of altogether losing himself...
...grown desperate over the amount of reading one must still do in order to become a fit candidate for a Harvard education. One buys book after-book, and after hastily trying to master them fears that he has absorbed nothing. He difficult to realize that one must grow in common sense before one can grow in knowledge...
...library as large as Harvard's must grow rapidly just to keep its collection up to date with the results of recent research. And in an inflationary period the cost of books and periodicals has risen sharply. The cost of building operation and maintenance has moved upward at an even more alarming rate. Decentralization, which has had highly beneficial effects on scholarship, is also to be credited with sparing Harvard the necessity of replacing Widener with a vast, multi-million dollar central library building. But decentralization increase difficulties and costs in other directions...