Word: growth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Lowell spoke on College life. First he spoke of the benefits which a man should get from a college education, saying that the social opportunities were a very great advantage. He dwelt on the power of growth, both physical and intellectual, as being essential and to be developed evenly. One should not overdo any special subject but should try all. Specialization is to be avoided in college. A man should make his acquaintance as large as possible, and his friends should not all be of one set. By making friends with men from every section you not only benefit...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "Effect of Radium upon Animal Growth and Structure." Mr. E. D. Congdon. "Quack-Grass, a Host of the Hessian Fly." Mr. Hayhurst. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...
...changes in this single administration of forty years. It would be well to read something further about the steps in the rise of standard with increase of numbers; of the tenfold increase of officers, all of whom are now appointees of the present administration; and of the growth of University income from $20,000 to $2,000,000. But the nine articles already give a good picture; a record of active patience upholding steadfast purpose; of absolute honesty of speech in unselfish service...
Professor Lefranc traced briefly the growth of the Renaissance movement for the education of woman. Moliere took an active part in this quarrel, as in others. His attitude, as revealed in "Les Femmes Savantes," was not opposed to the education of women, but merely to the excess of this tendency, which, as other excesses, he held up to ridicule...
Professor Lefranc traced the growth of the Renaissance revival of paganism, as opposed to the Christianity of the Middle Ages. The works of D'Urfee, de Scudery, Descartes and others who preceded Moliere are thoroughly pagan in spirit. The great bishop Fenelon wrote from a point of view almost diametrically opposed to that of the mediaeval ascetic Christianity...