Word: grown
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would like to make a suggestion in regard to the singing at the football games. Three years ago the last big Yale game was played. Three years ago the Class of 1920 entered Harvard. This means that there has grown up a body of undergraduates, who have yet to hear Harvard's songs sung at a football game against Yale. A great proportion of this undergraduate body do not even know the words of our songs, a fact only too clearly demonstrated at the Brown game...
...development within its own borders," continued Professor Roorbach. "American industry has been occupied with supplying American demand. There has been little need to compete with foreign markets. Europe has sought our raw materials, and our manufactured goods for export have been limited. Hence our large export trade has grown without effort on our part. Now that manufactured goods are being produced in such large quantities, we must seek markets in competition with other manufacturing nations...
Indigo is now also made artificially, and this manufacturing process has driven the indigo plant from the market, because indigo can now be made at less cost than it can be grown. Professor Osterhaut indicated that the expected interesting developments in synthetic manufacture in the future...
...possession of Cigarettes. A woman superintendent of schools in Kansas has announced: "I will O. K. the appointment of no teacher using tobacco" For the present, the W. C. T. U. States that it will make no attempt to outlaw tobacco in the regions where it is grown, but will confine its work to outlying parts of the country. Such as Oregon, where the society will not meet the opposition of the cultivators of the plant. But, unfortunately, an organization of this sort is like the weed it condemns; it grows. The anti-cigarette law of Kansas is a proof...
...chapter in the growth of interest in the science of economics which has been the most notable alteration of recent years in Harvard's curriculum. Professor Taussing was the second man to give a course in economics at Harvard College; since the time he began, the introductory course has grown to a membership of several hundred, and a whole department has been built up. The science of economics is still very young. One of its points about which controversy has raged--the quantity theory of money--Professor Roorbach is peculiarly fitted to speak on, because of his research work...