Word: rapidly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There have probably been few things which have had a more astonishingly rapid growth than interscholastic athletics. All the fever of interscholastic football games, base ball games, track athletics and the like has been the product of hardly more than the last five years. When in 1886 the first interscholastic meeting was held in Southboro' between three schools, such things as meetings on Holmes Field or base ball or foot ball games on Jarvis to which admission was charged and for accounts of which a great part of the newspaper reading public looked forward with interest, - in the early days...
...most pressing question before the school is one of room. The resources of the school have been strained by its rapid growth. Judging from past development, the net increase of students next year would be, at least calculation, over fifty. Almost all changes announced for next year are to meet the addition. Seats for forty men will be placed in the vacant space to the east of the library stack and an extra delivery desk will be put in. Undoubtedly with a view to delaying further increase the Faculty have made admission more difficult in two ways; first, by requiring...
...initial article of the number is a study of Budopest and its recent rapid development, by Mr. Albert Shaw, with a number of excellent illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman contributes the fourth of his articles on the "Nature and Elements of Poetry," dealing this time with "Melancholia," and Emilio Castelar, the Spanish historian, publishes another chapter in his life of Columbus...
...statistics which are published in another column showing the recent growth of the larger of the American colleges are rather interesting as showing the growth of the learning in different parts of the country. As is only natural the most rapid growth, that is, the greatest in proportion to that of previous years is found in the colleges of that part of the country where the need for higher education is beginning to be realized. The proportunate strides which are being made by such institutions as the University of Wisconsin and the University of California are gratifying as signs...
...Monthly, vol. 24, p. 730. - (1) Life is faster; Saturday Review, vol. 58, p. 465. - (2) Wear and tear on nervous system is excessive. - (3) Incentives to mental work much greater now than formerly. - (b) City masses need healthful recreation. - (1) Concentration of population into large cities has been rapid; Popular Science Monthly, vol. 24, pp. 730 and table. - (c) Increasing knowledge demands the exercise of greater brain power; Ibid. p. 731. - (d) This increase in athletics in the U. S. is merely a part of a general development all over the world...