Word: overgrown
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...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...
...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...