Word: growths
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Garden has recently been equipped with a set of instruments which will permit a much more complete study of plant life than has yet been possible. The most interesting addition is a complicated piece of machinery for the purpose of determining the action of light and gravity on the growth of plants. A very powerful current of electricity has also been introduced into the laboratory in order to test the effect of electricity on plants. By means of a switch board, the current can be increased or diminished and the corresponding effects on plant growth may be observed...
...Dean of the Law School for 1900-01 consists chiefly of two tables. One gives the courses of study and instruction during the year, and the number of students who offered themselves for examination in each course at the end of the year. The other exhibits the growth of the School during the last 31 years, in the number of students, the number and percentage of college graduates, and in the number of colleges represented by their graduates. This second table shows a steady increase in all columns up to the current year. This year, however, shows a considerable loss...
Union pamphlets, similar to those issued last October, are to be sent out in a few days by the class secretaries to the graduate members of their classes. The pamphlets will give an account of the growth of the Union, its purposes and aims, the present system of management, qualifications for election, etc., and will be illustrated by cuts of the building and probably several interior views. The purpose of the pamphlet is to arouse interest in the Union among the graduates, and to increase the graduate membership, particularly among non-residents...
Athletic Success and College Growth...
...American colleges and universities could satisfy themselves that success in athletics is not indispensable to college growth, or better still, be persuaded that too much attention to athletic sports, or a bad tone in regard to them, hinders college growth, there would probably result a great improvement in the spirit in which intercollegiate contests are conducted: they would come to be regarded as the by-play they really are, and would be carried on in a sportsmanlike way as interesting and profitable amusements...