Word: outgrow
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...said that the interested student will have intelligence enough to find out for himself what he must do by inquiring at the College office. Unfortunately the majority of Freshmen come to college with a distorted notion of college life so that they do not outgrow their prep school prejudices against education until well on in their college career. For this reason we believe it to be vitally important that the members of every incoming class have again and again explained to them the rules and requirements for obtaining recognition of scholastic attainment either in the form of prizes and debates...
...really a limited monarchy. This statement is, perhaps, an exaggeration, but it is indicative of the trend of the times. Our national growth in industry, population, and size is fast breaking down the skeleton of legislative government. It seems inevitable that this increasing burden of management will eventually outgrow our present legislative system. Accordingly two alternatives remain; resting responsibility with the Executive or inventing a new method of representation through legislation. At present the former is rapidly gaining recognition, and no overtures of any consequence have been made for the latter. People have come to distrust the practicability of making...
...professional or business career, and the practice of the law itself opens business opportunities. Moreover, I have heard it said and seen it demonstrated, that the successful lawyer, so long as his mentality remains intact, is seldom if ever voluntarily retired. He never becomes obsolete; his business does not outgrow him. Even after he becomes unable to practice actively his name, reputation and opinions continue to have material value...
...population to contribute to the greatness of America in practically every field of endeavor, without allowing them a voice in the government is nothing less than an abridgement of liberty. The subordinate position of women, which nineteen centuries of the Christian era have only just managed to outgrow was a survival from barbaric times, when early man first discovered that he was physically stronger than his mate. The passing by the Sixty-Sixth Congress of the proposed Nineteenth Amendment marks the final step in the breaking down of this age-old prejudice, based as it is upon the bestial...
...lasting effect upon the characters of the youthful mendicants. We have no right to expect that a class of children of the grammar school age--or even younger--who are educated to believe in their right to extort money from "the students" by cringing or bullying, will outgrow the harm which such a practice has done them. Let us harden our hearts and endure the imprecations, of disappointed petitioners rather than encourage a noxious custom for the sake of temporary release from persecution, or a few minutes of mild enjoyment...