Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call, no matter in what part of the world this call may have come from; we should pay a tribute to the Massachusetts spirit as it existed in the commonwealth and as shown correspondingly by the sons of Harvard College. Let that spirit go on--that it may grow and increase everywhere and that it may help knowledge and light to come in throughout...
...intellect and not as the passive recipient of lectures. And for this active operation what he needs most is the continued and intimate contact with his fellows. Students must live together and eat together, talk and smoke together. Experience shows that that is how their minds really grow. And they must live together in a rational and comfortable way. They must eat in a big dining room or hall, with oak beams across the ceiling, and the stained glass in the windows and with a shield or tablet here and there upon the wall to remind them between times...
...with thin hair should not allow that little bald spot to grow larger and larger every month. One week's trial of Noonan's Hair Petrole will show what can be done with hair that is not entirely dead...
...been in both cases incapable of appreciating the problem concretely. New England has had no experience either of negro hatred or of Japanese hatred. From the angle of the New England observer these passions appear bad and groundless and jingoistic. But they exist and will always exist and grow when two races so widely separated by religion, tradition, custom and morality as the American and the Japanese are placed in close social and economic relations...
There is no doubt that in the junior and senior years at most of our big universities a certain proportion of the men become restive under the lecture system. This feeling is certain to grow and unless the colleges respond to it in some way their hold on the more intelligent men in America and on the intellectual life of the country is sure to weaken. Their already feeble resistance to technical education will become a rout. The trouble with the lecture system is that it keeps a chap at 21 or 22 working on his old prep school subjects...