Word: rising
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent action of the Princeton faculty in abolishing supervision of examinations and, instead, requesting students to sign a declaration at the end of their paper to the effect that they have neither given nor received assistance, has given rise to considerable discussion by the press of various colleges. While this regulation has a certain merit of appealing to the honesty of every man and of tending to raise the standard of honor, it may be doubted whether this mere signing of a pledge will make any material difference in the amount of cheating. A man is no more...
...Black opened his lecture with a rather amusing description of the ordinary Scotch character, showing the traits in that character to which the early poetry appealed and the reasons which gave rise to the poetry itself. It was +++ the natural scenery of Scotland, not the hills and rivers and lakes that inspired Scotch poetry but rather the deeds of war that had been done on these hills and rivers and lakes. The poetry came spontaneously from the hearts of a people whose life had always been one of aggression, a struggle for existence. The soul, then, of all this poetry...
...held throughout the attention of his hearers. His text was from the twenty-third chapter of Matthew; "Be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren." In this text are found the three doctrines that govern the progress of humanity, the rise of democracy, the history of Christianity, three developments dependent upon one another. These doctrines are that we have one "Master, even Christ," that no man is master, that all men are brethren...
...fulfilled it object. - (a) Silver did not rise permanently: Silver Situation, 52 - (b) Prices have not risen - (c) Has not caused a revival of general activity. - (d) Silver Agitation was not stopped: Nation LII, (Jan. 8, '91.) - (e) Gen. Sherman grants that the bill was a failure: Ibid...
...yards more. With the ball but a single yard from the line the hearts of the Harvard supporters almost stood still. The suspense was terrible, and when a fumble on the part of Yale gave Emmons a chance to get the ball, the relief of Harvard men gave rise to howls and cheers that would have done credit to a touchdown...