Word: outgrown
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great need for an auditorium such as this, which would have a seating capacity for more than one thousand people. At present the New Lecture Hall is the only place in which, athletic mass meetings, and other undergraduate demonstrations may be held, and that buildings is already being outgrown. Another need of a large auditorium appears now, as it does annually, in the lack of a suitable place in which to hold the Commencement exercises, where more of the guests may witness them. Again, if an adequate auditorium were provided it would afford a better place for holding recitals...
...course admit the great, the pressing, need of a new gymnasium building to take the place of Hemenway, long antiquated and outgrown. Even more obvious is the ardent wish of every Harvard man that in time there be erected a fitting and enduring memorial which may ever stand as a concrete tribute to those who fell--a tribute that will recall to successive generations of Harvard men the glory and honor due that gallant group of three hundred and four soldiers and sailors...
...when the easterly wing was added Gore Hall contained the Harvard Library until 1913. And being then long outgrown was torn down to make place for the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library. This tablet has been placed here by the University Library Committee...
...study"; athletics "strange gods"; study "six hours a day"; Dr. Stryker is out of step with progress. There may have been a time when his doctrines would have won adherents; happily it is past, and they have been delegated to the dust bin where repose other curious and outgrown theories the hampered and restricted our daddies. College is a place to loaf, to invite the soul, to complete an education in athletics, to form pleasant friendships, to take the first steps in sociology, to relieve the mind of those traditional notions that restricted the comprehension...
...drop this whole business. It has had its day as a joke and has outgrown that stage. It should now be a thing of the past. AN INTERESTED GRADUATE...