Word: risen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...water in Fresh Pond has risen one foot since the Stony Brook water...
...Laughlin in the third article discusses the ever doubtful question of the status of gold since 1873. To the many who say that it has risen, the article shows a few of the complications which have to be considered, as whether prices have not varied and gold remained the same; whether silver has not changed its ratio. Perhaps the most correct statement of the case is that all these forces have had an influence and that the proportion which each has taken in the struggle is practically beyond calculation. The article puts the facts before its readers in a clear...
...college abounds in players of this specifically American instrument. The success of the Yale Club may be regarded as a partial indication of the possible success of such a club in Harvard. Unless indeed we may flatter ourselves that the state of musical taste and criticism at Harvard has risen above the intricacies of banjo counterpoint. We would not discourage anyone from forming a Banjo Club, although it might be wise not to incorporate the new interpreter of sweet strains with the venerable Pierian Sodality, that boasts an age of almost a century...
...eldest sister. She first saw the light in those stormy days at the end of the great Civil War, when the changes, which have since made Harvard a university, were beginning. Through change and storm she has remained steadfast. During her life one college paper and another has risen, flourished, and died; but she alone, among all untouched, has held her sway. Our best wish is that she may be worthy to stand as the oldest paper of "Fair Harvard," our oldest seat of learning. For if the Advocate ever fairly and worthily sets forth our best thought, she, like...
...century ago, and gave her such vantage ground over all other nations that they will probably never be able to overtake her in this work. Here, too, just in proportion as methods have been bettered, and the true spirit of linguistic training developed, the Modern Languages have risen higher and higher in the scale of patent agencies for mind culture, and, in some parts of the empire have for years stood alongside the classics, and shared with them all their rights and privileges...