Word: rising
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Interference in the past has been most unfortunate. - (a) Cuban Filibustering; Wilson; Rise and Fall of Slave Power II: 368-75. (b) War between Peru and Chile, 1881; Diplomatic Corres. in Ho. Exec. Doc. 1881-2. Vol. I, pp. 31., 921, 944. - (c) Chilean affair; Hart in Boston Herald...
...Stacey Brown '92, fresh from his recent triumph at New Haven, entered vigorously into the spirit of debate. He said he did not rise to bespeak a hearing for any wild or fanciful utopian scheme, but for a gradual and practical adoption of a nationalistic form of government. He dwelt particularly on the injustice of the present form of government, and introduced a bitter comparison between the millionaire and the workingman of today...
...Hutchinson '93, then spoke on the negative. The campaign of 1884 has shown that the road to the White House is not smooth. Republics rise, grow, flourish, become corrupt and perish. Men must be nominated whose careers are of the highest order and whose characters are spotless. This speaker based the greater part of his arguments upon the charge that Mr. Blaine once prostituted his office for money, when he was the owner of certain railroad bonds...
...spring of 1886 saw the first meeting of the association at Southboro' in which but three schools competed, would hardly have believed that in the short space of six years the association could have grown to its present proportions. With the growth of the association has come a marked rise in the standard of the athletics themselves. At the first meeting of the association the hundred yards dash was run on one of the Southboro' roads; now there is no track which the young athletes consider too good for them. Much more pains is being taken, too, in the training...
...possible to make it a success. The dinner is a strong unifying force. It is the first time that the whole class comes together in a social way. More than this it is one of the few thoroughly democratic occasions in the history of a class; at it men rise above cliques, factions and society ties to become for the first time a united body, and out of it grow bonds of unity and good-fellowship which join them, henceforth, for the welfare of their class...