Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...notorious fact that the great University commons, known as Memorial Hall, has become an overgrown and unwieldy institution. The universal demand for reform, which was made by the members of the Dining Association last January, proved this very plainly. In compliance with the demand, the Board of Directors appointed a committee to investigate the condition of the Hall and to make pertinent suggestions for improvement. The report of this committee has been printed and deserves the careful attention, not only of those students who dine in the Hall, but also of all who are interested in the success...
...perhaps they consider themselves already to have reached man's estate. We assure them that they are mistaken. Such childish manifestations only prove that they are not fit to come to college, but should have another year or two at the primary school. We do not want such overgrown babies at Harvard. They should remember that to insult an instructor in the performance of his duty is a very low and despicable form of wit. Moreover, it will not be tolerated here. The freshmen had better take this warning to heart...
...collegiate millenium will find overgrown class-prejudice merged into fellowship which knows no class; it will dawn upon greater accomplishment, because it will dawn upon more advanced opportunities; upon grander prospects, because upon immovable union of action...
...each other should not be placed on the ordinary basis of social decorum, enforced, when necessary, by the appropriate legal sanctions, it is difficult to see. Many old fashions are quaint and charming; this one certainly is not. The tone of the age is against this 'peculiar institution.' Overgrown classes, eager individual work in special lines, the advanced age compelled by high standards of qualification, largely relieve the individual student from his duty as guardian of class dignity and general corrigeur des moeurs...
...World, seems to have started out with a good opinion of Harvard men, and yesterday expressed itself as follows: "It is rumored that the Yale students propose to receive Oscar Wilde after the manner of the welcome extended to Count Johannes some years ago; putty blowers, decayed oranges and overgrown sunflowers, being substituted for bouquets and applause. The New Haven Register trusts, for the honor of Yale and the credit of the university city, that this programme, if intended, shall be dropped. 'Yale,' it says, 'should let Princeton and Harvard bear off the undisputed palm for rowdyism and boorishness...