Word: rising
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These figures demonstrate beyond a doubt that participation in athletics does not lower the standing of those engaged (except freshmen). "That the scholarship of the college has not seriously suffered from the growth of athletics is further demonstrated by the steady rise in the average standing of the graduating classes during the past eleven years; while new sports have been added, and the number of participants has largely increased, the average standing has risen from 67 1-2 per cent. to 73 per cent...
...second decade, 2.68. The average of the track athletes during the past five years has been 2.68. It will be seen by these figures that the averages of the crew and nine fall below that of the non-athletic men, while those of the football men and track athletes rise above it. Both athlete and non-athletes show a gain in scholarship during the second decade...
...work he apt to become 'non-fashionable' and there is generally an end to him." This may be true during the first two years of the college course, but we venture to assert that later in the course the society men fall and the grinds and the semi-grinds rise in the estimation of the college world. The writer also forgets the existence of several popular senior and junior societies, membership in which demands either literary work or high scholarship...
...their eyes and they no longer were blind that there could be no palliation of their sin. Our sins are many or few according to our knowledge of them, and therefore, together with our first higher sense of real righteousness, comes a feeling of sin and shame. But this rising sense of sin is a hopeful sign, for if we receive it into our hearts with pure feelings we shall be animated to rise above it, and with a better heart to accomplish the designs for which we have been created. Our care must be not to let this feeling...
...subjects discussed by Professor Peabody in Philosophy eleven. And it should be said that it is one of the most important and difficult questions with which our States have at present to deal. Because of the dangerous increase of divorce, the consequent alarm of the people, and the rise and spread of agitation on the subject, it has become a live and serious question. In the December number of the Andover Review, Rev. A. P. Peabody says: "Christian civilization at the present time is encountering no peril of so dire portent as the loosening of the mystical bond, with...