Word: rising
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would give rise to serious complications. e. g. (a) When the president or either house were of different political parties; (b) when the conduct of the cabinet becomes objectionable to congress, but is sanctioned by the president:- Pomeroy's Constitutional Law, pp. 121-22; Wilson's Congressional Government, p. 269; Nation, vol. 16, p. 233; Nation. vol. 28, p. 243; speech of Mr. Thayer, thirty-eighth congress, second session...
...third chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians. He spoke of vesper services, and of the motives which have been the underlying inspiration of them, He defined these motives as self reproach and self respect. These motives come to every man, the one from below urging him to rise to a sense of his obligations, the other from above beckoning him on into the realms of opportunity. The true self respect does not rise out of the man himself, as an isolated being, but out of his consciousness that only from his associations with those about him can there...
...amount of good which Harvard's athletic interests have already received from the work of the association during the past three years of its existence. All of the three schools which have composed the membership, may be called Harvard preparatory schools, and it cannot be denied that the rise in their standard of athletics has had a most powerful influence for the good of Harvard...
...fish everything science tells us about the fish; from a chip he can recognize a Greek statue; from a bone he can draw the skeleton. In fine, his object is to make the part reflect the whole. To this tendency of the German towards specialization is due the rise of comparative history, comparative art, religion, philology, jurisprudence, etc. In philosophy also the German has done noble work; he treats it psychologically, and not as the Greek did, auto-logically. He looks into the conditions of human knowing, and reaches the conclusion that reason is all-important. In music we find...
...their short life they have accomplished a great deal, viz.: they established a uniform duty so that all the states can enjoy equal privileges; they introduced a uniform monetary system, and reformed the department of justice. The army had a great deal to do with the rise of nationality. All are compelled to serve their term, so that both soldiers and officers have among them the most cultured Germans. During the last twenty-five years all the German cities have made great improvements. Large buildings have been erected; the population has increased to a great extent. Wages have doubled...