Word: growths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Having resolved some years ago to make physical training his profession, Dr. Sargent began a system of independent investigation with regard to the growth and development of the body under the various conditions of life...
...think this strange. It is necessarily connected with our growth. Probably nowhere on this planet can a thousand young men be found between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four who will not show examples of the heedless, the temptable, and the depraved. Let us not, then, shrink from acknowledging the ugly fact, extravagance is here-shameless, coarse extravagance...
...opportunity offered last evening of hearing Prof. Henry Drummond of Edinburgh University on the subject of Christianity among students, and Holden Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity. After the singing of a hymn, Professor Drummond introduced Dr. Smith of the Scotch delegation, who told of the gradual growth of religion in the Scotch Universities. Several years ago it would have been impossible to hold a religious meeting at Edinburgh University. Now they have services and meetings, especially in the hospitals, where the medical students often go and hold short services with the patients. This was a great step...
...undergraduate became tolerably well acquainted with all of the numbers of this class, and with quite a number of young men who were members of classes immediately above or bellows. Of late years, however, the classes have been so large (and there seems to be no limit to their growth in the future) that this class acquaintanceship, and possibly, also, class feeling, are gradually passing away. The associates that a young man has while at Harvard are now, in most instances, the friends that he made while at the preparatory schools, such, for example, as the Boston Latin School...
With every enlargement of the various departments of instruction announced in the elective pamphlet, the maze through which the man of "no particular bent of soul" must wander becomes denser and more labyrinthine. But this is one of the disadvantages that attends every growth of what modern sociologists term "the diversification of function." The choice which the individual must make be comes modified and motivated by the introduction of new fields that are opened to him. A recognition of this fact is forced on every man as he sits down to make out his electives for the ensuing year. Moreover...