Word: growth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College. Tonight is one of the very best chances to examine how much the undergraduates care for the game. We believe that it is a sport to be encouraged, that the comparatively few chances to see University hockey games in the past have tended to retard its growth; but that an enthusiastic attendance at tonight's game will not only greatly encourage the team at a decisive moment but will be a great factor toward the successful maintenance of an excellent winter sport...
...never been possible for Harvard to adopt the plan of class segregation which at Yale has been the chief means of building up a deep and inclusive college spirit such as Harvard--at least since the time of its recent tremendous growth--has not known. President Lowell has two plans for bringing about College unity which will have distinct advantages over the Yale scheme. The first of these is Freshman dormitories; the second is the thing for which the class of 1913 is now responsible--the Senior dormitories...
Persecution never injured Christianity but if anything helped its progress. Corruption first sprang up from within coincident with the growth of privilege, creeds, and social distinctions. Christianity was used to bolster up temporal as well as spiritual power in the formation of the papacy, and in so doing lost most of the true interpretation of Christ's teachings. On looking back over history we can see how much more clearly men now understand the following of his teachings than at that time, yet many are still entangled in the meshes of dogma and theology. If religion is going...
...ambition for education, but along with this was a feeling that once educated it would be disgraceful to do manual labor any longer. As cooking, farming, carpentering, and other practical occupations, were the chief things taught at Tuskegee, this feeling was one of the chief obstacles to its early growth. Now, however, this old prejudice has largely disappeared and the negro has learned the great difference between being worked and working--that the former is degradation, the latter civilization. This change of spirit in regard to labor is one of the greatest evidences of his progress. Moreover, by learning...
...marble bust of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46, who was intimately connected with the beginnings and growth of the Fine Arts Department, has been placed on the platform of the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum. The bust was executed by Victor D. Brenner, and was given by James Loeb...