Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rewarding place when every student at entrance was a potential magna or summa man? Or would a precocious academic careerism tend to corrupt the young and inhibit breadth of interest and the disinterested search for understanding and enrichment? Would academic competitiveness be greatly increased and tensions, anxieties and frustrations grow unbearably, particularly for those able students who, perhaps only because they dared to take a course outside their field or had bad luck with an instructor or two, found themselves
...inscription facing Massachusetts Avenue says, "Enter To Grow in Wisdom." And at the same gate, as you leave the Yard: "Depart To Serve better Thy Country and Mankind." In the Yard, grow in wisdom: outside, serve mankind. And at Radcliffe there is talk of surrounding the quadrangle with a wall to buttress as unconfident identity. There will be a gate, and a similar inscription...
Confusion persisted through the nineteenth century (which lasted longer in Boston than elsewhere), and George Santayana was forced to characterized the old College rather uncertainly, as a place which "liberated the young man from the pursuit of money, from hypocrisy, from the control of women. He could grow for a time according t o his nature, and if this growth was not guided by much superior wisdom or deep study, it was not warped by an serious perversion; and if the intellectual world did not permanently entice him... he learned that such things existed, and gathered a shrewd notion...
...Please don't eat the wisteria, the U.S. Public Health Service warned, in effect. The pods of wisteria vines, particularly in the South, where the plants grow profusely, make children severely ill with vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal swelling...
Because snails are carriers of the blood fluke that causes schistosomiasis, a disease on the rampage in Egypt, parasitologists are growing 20 varieties of snails in order to test 3,000 chemicals that might kill the fluke. Tropical virologists grow many kinds of mosquitoes to bite size, to study what subspecies can transmit such diseases as yellow fever and eastern equine encephalitis, a form of sleeping sickness that periodically reaches epidemic strength in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Louisiana. "Problems-nothing but problems," says Dr. G. Robert Coatney. "In nature mosquitoes grow without any trouble, but when we try to raise...