Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...being there. This year must set a precedent to those following. If we do nothing in the way of welding the College into a sense of unity, the men who come here in later years will feel no obligations to the University, and Harvard will sink slowly into an overgrown day-school, where men come and go with no thought of anything but themselves. With this object of educating the lower classes into a realization of Harvard spirit, the baseball mass meeting was held. And it was a great success as far as it went. The men who were there...
...cathedral of Amiens, and in spirit it is French rather than German, but its proportions were a failure, and the recent removal of surrounding high buildings, in an intention to give to it its full value, have only had the effect to win for it the epithet of "the overgrown monster." For all that, its history, its size and some of its architectural features no doubt entitle it to the respect which the British and French aviators have hitherto paid to it. But if considerations of military advantage should render it desirable to follow up the recent small attack...
...existence to se so much of this foolishness of calling a foot ball kicker a hereo only because he can kick a foot ball good. It must be discouraging to many worthy students to look at papers and see nothing about a college except about a lot of overgrown boys mauling each other and called heroes I thought a hereo was one that did some thing unselfish for his fellow man. A ADMIRER OF THE GRIND