Word: growth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...growth of the school has been continuous from the time of its organization, more than 200 students attending the classes given at its present quarters on Longwood avenue, and over graduating yearly from the institution. Instruction is given throughout the academic year by lectures, recitation clinical teaching and practical work, the program of instruction occupying three years...
...annual report of the University Library indicates rapid growth under increasing difficulties. More than forty thousand volumes have been added to its shelves, swelling the total to nearly two million and placing it among the greatest collections of books in the world. Yet with this encouraging progress there has not come the corresponding increase of dependable resources which are necessary in carrying forward the work from year to year...
...culture for which Southerners of position have ever been famous. It is false to assume that the material problems of reconstruction after the war ever obscured from the minds of the most intelligent Southerners those things of the mind and the spirit which make for the most enduring growth. On the contrary, possessed of a great tradition in education, they have clung to it firmly...
...themselves contribute to these enlargements. There were wise and able teachers of chemistry fifty years ago, but the chemistry of today is a different science. Barrett Wendell has consistently endeavored to make his study and his instruction in English scientific and in full accord with his realization of the growth and change of the language. Usage makes good English. Professor Wendell found it one of his tasks to impress the fact that usage does not require the sanction of generations to become "good usage" and therefore good English. He never professed horror at such a venial offence as a split...
...substance one man says that perservance is a quality to be cultivated, and that wanderlust is merely a name for discontent and laziness; the other infers that too much detail is fatal to growth, and that the practice of doing unhabitual things is necessary for development. What is the solution of the riddle...