Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beautiful in all the arts, and he has an enjoyment and appreciation from travel in Europe or study in museums and galleries of this country which few laymen are likely to have. Most of all, he has the great privilege of seeing the building which he has imagined, grow before his eyes in useful, beautiful, and enduring form...
Final time trials for the University one-mile relay team will be held today, weather permitting. While the week has not started very auspiciously, it is hoped that it will grow warmer later in the week, since all three relay teams need more practice...
...cannot conceive of so Christian a duty as to bring these children back to what they deserve. The League of Nations cannot do as much for future peace as can the manifestation of America's sympathy to the sufferings of children. These children will grow up to remember our friendship for them, and that will be a much greater assurance of peace than any League, or Holy Alliance, or anything else...
There have always been "snap" courses in Harvard and every other college. The elimination of them has been like decapitating the hydra, as soon as one course is lopped off two grow in its place, in spite of the almost Herculean efforts of the committee. The truth remains that it is still possible for the crafty undergraduate to choose his courses so judiciously that he can obtain a degree with much less than the "required" amount of study. The fact however, that some of those courses which require the greatest amount of work are the most popular in the college...
There is a strong tendency to enlarge the scope of political government so as to include also industrial government. Whether this shall grow into state socialism or whether private enterprises will be able individually or collectively to establish a satisfactory form of government, supplementary to political government, is one of these large interesting questions which may be decided within a generation or two. The solution may depend upon the ability of the employees to develop a constructive power and effective government among themselves...