Word: overgrowth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obviously, a grave experiment, and one whose outcome will be eagerly awaited. But it is, we feel sure, a step in the direction which all progressive universities must take if they are to avoid the consequences of overgrowth and standardization. The situation at Princeton is less pressing than at Harvard; Princeton has neither Harvard's severe growing pains not its noticeable lack of essential unity. And yet Princeton cannot be excepted from the observation that our leading universities must find some method of justifying their leadership if this leadership is to remain more than purely nominal; somehow they must provide...
Adenoids are an overgrowth of the glandular tissue above the soft palate and back of the nasal passages. They can be felt by sticking the forefinger into the adenoidal individual's mouth and hooking the first phalanx of the finger over his soft palate. The finger will come out covered with blood, for the adenoids bleed very easily...
Many conversations with my sons and their Harvard classmates have convinced me that the overgrowth in undergraduate numbers has had the effect of restricting, rather than widening, the scope of useful and stimulating social contacts; this in spite of the Freshman dormitories...