Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growth of the CRIMSON in fifty years has gone side by side with that of Harvard. It has seen the elective system develop from the curriculum of an overgrown academy to that of a college. It has seen the college become a University. Finally, in watching the transition from college to University, It has seen the gradual appearance of undergraduate tolerance, the growth of interest in and cooperation with other universities. When fully realized, this free interplay of ideas is the one firm foundation on which to rest any "League of Youth...
...higher education. They think of the training as necessarily mechanical; they see no more advantage to be had from the School of Business Administration, here than from a common business school. What they forget is the comprehensive vision that is superimposed on the strictly practical groundwork. "Big Business", that overgrown bully of the modern world, will never be reformed until taken in hand by a few men with something better than personal motives. Only when theory is understood, as well as pratices and recognition made of the philosophy that underlies all commercial relations, can business be raised from an occupation...
...every student in the College should wear a paper cap colored with a certain hue to represent the state of the Union from which he comes, the lecture room of Comp. Lit. 12 for instance would resemble an overgrown pansy bed and the paths of the Yard would eclipse the most enthusiastic rainbow...
...Frank W. Harding at first described the shotgun man as smooth shaven, but later used numerous words to describe the overgrown Charley Chaplin moustache of the same...
Perhaps the most detrimental misconception in regard to the annual Student Conference is that it is a solely religious or missionary convention; this idea is particularly prevalent this year, due, perhaps, to the influence of the Des Moines Convention. Haunted by the phantom of an overgrown Sunday School picnic, many people who would attend if rightly informed, are scared away...