Word: outgrows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tears. Sectarian colleges, and probably all others, have their squabbling age, an age of hair-pulling and scratching, an age of petty jealousies, rivalries and quarrels. If any man doubts that, let him come here and read the story of Harvard's childhood. It took two hundred years to outgrow it. It makes a curious record, this story of the Puritan popes who wanted to be president, or wanted a professorship for self or son, or wanted a certain policy pursued, a course of study introduced, or a certain theology adopted. Affairs now move with an amazing absence of friction...
...eight similar rooms for the Palaeontological and Geological collections; and thirteen rooms devoted to the laboratories, lecture rooms, and library connected with the instruction given at the museum. The arrangement being such that whenever any departments, as, for instance, the geological and geographical, or the anatomical, or any other, outgrow their present quarters, room can be made for them, by extension of the building, for a long time to come, without interfering with the plans which have been carried out thus far." The able corps of workers attached to this department having now straightened the general plan will be able...
Willie Edouin will continue for another week at the Gaiety with his amusing "Dreams," which, however, is not as good a performance as it formerly was. Miss Atherton is getting just a little bit passee, but, as an Irish critic remarked, let us hope that she may outgrow...