Word: rising
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tendency of the authorities in Radcliffe to organize the college more and more closely upon Harvard lines seems to us very wise. This policy not only ensures rapid and safe expansion for Radcliffe, but it will also prevent the rise in future of troublesome questions in regard to co-education in Harvard...
...enemies are satisfied that his influence is destroyed. Yet that influence, intensified by His resurrection, in less than three centuries became the greatest power of the world. Again and again has history shown us this same thing. A work coming apparently to an end in total failure only to rise in altered form, and to go on extending its power far beyond what the originator could have hoped...
...turned from the scorn and contempt of a Pharisee to the love and duty of a Christian. Then again he grew to know Chirst from studying and appreciating his life until, as the orb of day pierces the early morning mists, so he saw the personality of Christ rise through the sorrows of his life. Finally Paul grew to know Christ by serving Him; he suffered and accomplished, lived and died, under His mastership...
...glance at the actual figures shows how ridiculous is the rumor, and how unfounded are the complaints to which it has given rise. Four years ago, before there was any Administrative Board, thirty-nine freshmen were dropped at the close of the year; three years ago, when the Administrative Board first came into being, twenty-eight men were dropped; two years ago, there were twenty men dropped; and, last year, twenty-nine. That is to say, out of all the men rated as freshmen at the close of the year, only twenty-nine were debarred from returning to college...
...spirit she can exhibit on occasion. It is not enough that Harvard should do well with the odds in her favor; but, rather, the heavier the odds against her, the greater ought to be her efforts. There is a feeling among outsiders that Harvard is lacking in grit to rise to great emergencies. An ill-founded belief we believe it to be, and yet it is undoubtedly a wide-spread one. Much can be done now to refute...