Word: growth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale graduates, desirous of offering undergraduates the chance of forming a discriminating acquaintance with old books and prints, was informally opened at New Haven early in the week. Some 200 undergraduates and about 25 members of the faculty were present. Professor E. B. Reed of Yale outlined the prospective growth of the new shop and its many advantages...
...theory of individual defense has permitted the astounding growth of armaments and militarism in the last century which has culminated in the present war. And whatever else may result from it, a step of some sort should be taken to make the repetition of such a war less probable. The League to Enforce Peace contemplates this by forming a combination of nations which will force member nations to refer their difficulties to judicial courts before resorting...
What is the meaning of the great trend toward the major athletic sports in the last half century? Does it mean that college life is becoming more frivolous? On the contrary, it means that it has a craving for greater reality. The college student is a man in growth without a man's responsibilities; he needs an ingredient in his life of something beside books in order to make his books themselves seem real to him; he needs a dash of physical effort and even risk. And there is nothing, at present, except the more strenuous phases of athletics that...
...With the growth of classes Phi Beta Kappa elections become more significant every year, for the percentage from each class becomes smaller. Competition has also grown keener, and hence the honor won by the men whose names are announced this morning is greater than it was in former days. The elections, moreover, have been conducted as fairly as a college grading system will allow, and scholarship has been the only standard. To men who have been busy in College affairs and have also made the Society, this is distinctly added honor; to others it is, of course, an achievement...
Dean F. P. Keppel, head of Columbia College, in his annual report to President Nicholas Murray Butler, just made public, sees in the rapid growth of the university's registration an approach to the limits of the university's capacity. He suggests that more severe requirements be demanded for admission to Columbia, and that greater restrictions be put upon students who are inclined to slide through the last two years on easy courses...