Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with unsparing accuracy by some opponent, and in this way he learns how to deal with men. His life is one long training, and bitter as the conflicts in courts may seem to be, the relations between the members of the profession are as a rule cordial, and grow more so with years...
...majority of us down to a life of anotony and mundane, materialist achievement. It is a clear cut cross section view of the experiences and struggles of one who, failing to attain for herself expression of herself, gives all that a woman can give that her daughter may grow up to know the freedom and deliciousness of being herself...
...student that he is most directly related to the University. Founded as a place where one might "enter to grow in wisdom", sustained by the labor of men of scholarly attainment, it is fitting that Harvard Should each year be honored by its sons through the adoption of the garb which best symbolizes its purpose and meaning. Any-one who is not willing to pay this slight tribute to his Alma Mater, must have profited but little by his four years at Cambridge...
Ethically, the proposition is all wrong. The man who is able to slide by in class, and knows that he is not doing the expected work, tends to form such a habit. This habit will grow and take in greater and more important things. Most men who do this thing know that it is wrong but their ethical standards are abstract, not a part of everyday life. They are to be dragged out and burnished occasionally but never used...
...chemist from Connecticut. Yale has lost its athletic supremacy, so this scientific man declares, because the soil of the State has become exhausted, and college men have for that reason become a race of less vitality. If the tribe of weaklings at New Haven is to prosper, farmers must grow alfalfa to get phosphate of lime into the milk. Lime and legumes, says the expert, will go far toward redeeming Yale's athletic prowess. Thus is the intricacy of intercollegiate sport reduced to simple terms of molecules and fertilizers...