Word: grows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Gallivan played once more on the Eighty-eight team, and the result was felt at once. Eighty-eight braced up and played well at bat and field. There was liberal applause, though Holmes is too vast for a small audience to grow excited in, and only towards the end of the game was there any cheering. The game, however, was well played and interesting. The feature of the game was Gallivan's game at short, accepting ten chances without an error, and making two marvellous one hand catches. Young played a brilliant game at second, though but one catch...
...tugs steamed up to the start at four, the "Sargent," with a band of music on board, hugging the shore and taking her time. It was very cold, a stiff breeze blowing straight up the course, and making the water lumpy, and for a little while it seemed to grow worse instead of mending. At the starting place the mill-dam was thronged with buggies loaded with spectators, which set off Bostonward the moment the race started. The wait at the bridge was exceedingly tedious, the cold wind dampening the ardor of the most excited...
...second day, but had sufficient experience at Harrow to urge earnestly the father and mother who read this letter to encourage their boys, by time, money (not much), your own presence and personal interest in such pleasure, and thus behold a splendid development of physical manhood, as the boys grow up to take the paternal place. Good fathers and doting mothers may object to this advice, but the old adage, "all work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy," is a mighty true saying. There is as much need for relaxation as there is for food and sleep. - Spirit...
...keen observer notes that while the number of gowns worn by '89 and '90 is increasing, those of the upper classes "grow beautifully less" every day. Wherefore this thusness? - Pennsylvanian...
...these first principles, because in them I find the key of all the meaning of the college festival. All thankfulness for the past, all hope for the great future depends, I think, in this; on whether the university which we profoundly love has grown towards, and shall continually grow more and more into a full obedience to the great masteries, a full acceptance of the great elemental influences and supplies on which all life must feed, into the fuller and fuller relation to God, and universal human life which can alone make her and keep her what she ought...