Word: growths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball season of 1887 has been of extreme benefit to the game. It marks an era in the growth of American foot-ball...
...growth of the country calls for a constant increase of the currency...
...intellectual growth of our University is pleasantly emphasized by the statistics which are published in this year's catalogue. The freshman class is fully a third as large again as the entrance classes of ten years ago. In the college alone there is a gain of 124 students over last year. These facts attest that the prosperity which has marked Harvard's career in the past is not yet on the wane, and that we may look forward to the time when our classes will equal in numbers those of the large English universities. The number of scholarships has been...
...growth of historical studies at Harvard College is a subject of special educational interest, for it illustrates a process of academic development which is now in progress throughout the country at large. This process marks the rise of modern studies, as distinguished, on the one hand, from classic humanism, our inheritance from the Renaissance, and, on the other, from theological training, our inheritance from the Middle Ages...
...Harvard Law Review. The object of the association in offering this prize is part of the larger object for which the association was first organized, to call the attention of the graduates to the work being done by the school, and to interest them in aiding the growth of the school by their individual efforts and influence. The president of the association is James C. Carter, of New York City, the secretary, Louis Brandies, of Boston...