Word: grows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well as the games of the team as often as possible. But while this is in every way desirable men must be more careful about walking around, not across the new ground on Holmes. The ground has been planted with grass seed, part of which is expected to grow before winter, but if scores of men are to tramp over the place daily, our prospect of having next year a well turfed, level field for base ball will be poor indeed...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: At this time of year when the heat is so overpowering and the work for examinations so wearing, college men naturally grow fastidious in their diet. It seems reasonable that the steward of Memorial should, therefore, try to cater in some degree to the changed tastes of his boarders and should provide a different menu in some respects. But we find the same old bill of fare that we have had all winter still continued, with its heavy meats and solid desserts. Some change ought certainly to be made. Many men would willingly dispense with certain articles...
...rule. There has been a general inclination to try the rule and see how it would work. But a theory which looked very plausible while as yet untried proves a failure when put to a practical test. The prospect of a general adoption of the rule does not grow brighter as time goes by, but, on the contrary, appears dimmer than ever. We still cling to our former position, therefore, in requesting the faculty either to rescind the rule or so to modify it as to do away with its objectionable features...
...visits of committees of genial and eloquent professors. Bright and promising young students in the community are made the subjects of a splendid college missionary interest. The charm of the spirit of this particular college or that is made to enter delightfully into their minds. They begin to grow to the college and feel a real and vital union with it long before they have looked upon its halls or been within scores of leagues of its central habitation. At stated times committees of the professors go forth and hold examinations - in other words, the college thus goes forth...
...started at Newport, R. I., to be called Touro College. Many of the leading Jewish clergymen have promised their active co-operation in furthering the interests of the school and its success is hardly problematical. The complaint has been that Jewish children sent to Christian colleges or convent schools grow up neither Jews nor Christians, and the object of the proposed school is to furnish an education in which culture and Jewish sentiment will be combined, as has been done successfully in many noted instances in Europe...