Word: grows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Seelye of Amherst says of compulsory exercise in the gymnasium: "By close statistics, carefully kept for twenty years, it appears that the health of an Amherst College Student is likely to grow better in each year of his college course. The average health of the sophomore class is better than that of the freshman, and of the junior better than that of the sophomore, and of the senior best of all. This average is shown to come from an improvement in the physical condition of the individual student, and not from the dropping out of the course of those...
...will be harder and harder to place them in our museums, and to preserve them. Everywhere buildings begin to be insufficient; and if we were to stick to the old system, according to which a museum exhibits nearly all its objects the large central depositories of natural history would grow to an enormous extent. The organization of the Cambridge museum tries to meet equally the demands of science and the wants of the public which comes for information, and in this sense I have called the Agassiz Museum a model museum for the future...
...Rightly understood and properly managed, club life has many fascinating elements and is sure to grow in popularity as we increase in numbers, wealth and intelligence. Old Dr. Johnson was not far out of the way when he said: "The chair of a full and pleasant town club is perhaps the throne of human felicity." And I know of no club where such a throne is more likely to be found than the University. It must always have especial attractions as the common meeting-ground of classmates and old college friends who will have much to talk of, besides "shop...
...encouraged or at least passed over in silence by the authorities, as it tends to divert the minds of the students from a too eager interest in politics, for it is a well known fact that the German universities have a strong tendency towards republicanism which if allowed to grow would soon assume formidable proportions. We can, therefore, congratulate ourselves that in some respects at least we have a decided advantage over our less fortunate fellow-students across the water, in the attitude of our students towards politics and in the settled and enlightened form of our government...
...buildings, and the result would be very pleasing. If the older buildings could be covered with a coat of living green, it would greatly increase the beauty of the yard by hiding the stiff and angular forms of the walls; and there is no reason why ivy should not grow as well upon the other buildings as it does on Harvard...