Word: rising
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...small, more than 200, and the scholarships at the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, are the main popular or democratic safeguards of the social system of the country. They have been the means of enabling, for three hundred years, many sons of humble tradesmen, clerks and farmers to rise to the highest offices in church and state. not a few of England's Archbishops and Lord Chancellors have risen to their lofty positions through their own talents and diligence, fostered and assisted by the old free grammar schools and the college scholarships...
MATCH I.Ten glass balls thrown from Bogardus trap s 18 yard rise...
...grown in vigor until now it has enrolled on either side the leading thinkers of the country. It seems to us that there is danger that in the heat of the discussion its true bearings should be lost to sight, and that in the minds of many there should rise the idea that college education and the value thereof was in some way called into question. However hot the debate may be, whatever arguments may be advanced, whichever side may eventually triumph, the great question of the advantages of a collegiate education remains entirely without the province of the debate...
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, generally fair weather, slightly warmer, south to west winds, stationary or slight rise in barometer...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., June 19, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, light rains followed by fair weather, winds shifting to southwest and west, falling followed by rising barometer in the south and west portions, stationary or slight rise in temperature...