Word: risen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been pointed out before that the custom of Seniors spending the last year in the Yard is comparatively new. But for some reason there has been no mention of a new tradition, if it can be termed such, which, though having risen from purely individual desire, may be called a true precursor of the House Plan. The past few years have seen an increasing number of upperclassmen solve the housing concerns of their final year by remaining on the Gold Coast. This, to a measure much larger than is apparent at first sight, has been a contributing cause...
...number of approved candidates for honors has continued its steady increase having risen 12 in actual numbers and 1.4 percent over last year's total. These figures show that although. Economics draws more men to its field, English still has a substantial lead in number of candidates for honors, 35.6 percent of its total as compared with 32 percent in Economics...
...Chairman Swift, who all live within a few blocks of the campus, and such illustrious out-of-towners as Charles Evans Hughes of Manhattan, George Otis Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey in Washington and Steelman Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland (elected last week), the board includes new-risen leaders of business and finance like President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum Co., Harry B. Gear of Commonwealth Edison Co., Charles Revell Holden of the Union Trust Co., Robert L. Scott of Carson Pirie Scott & Co. (department store), Albert W. Sherer of Lord & Thomas and Logan (advertising agents...
Ground for Harvard's indoor, athletic plant was broken on the required day and the bulky walls have risen. Throughout the construction of the plant, "Alumnus Aquaticus" and "Anonymous Aquaticus" have carried on steady correspondence with Mr. Bingham, the while maintaining complete anonymity. Letters have been forwarded through the two New York banks in which the runds have been deposited; a steady stream of criticism and suggestion has been forth-coming on every architectural detail. And still Mr. Bingham, try as he may is unable to establish the identity of the two Harvard benefactors. A certain similarity in the letters...
...spite of, or rather, because of, his high position, a new and current flock of troubles has risen to plague him. In April, when he pulled the call money market through a tight place, he received general kudos (though it was then that Senator Glass first began to reflect upon "Mitchellism," its nature and evils). But in October Mr. Mitchell arrived home from Europe just in time to anticipate the greatest Market crash in history with a bullish pronouncement. When the banking consortium was formed to halt the panic, it was the House of Morgan that received most...