Word: rising
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reason why it should not be used again, to the familiar words, in the afternoon. Moreover, it is a tune that gains peculiarly by added volume of sound. As a matter of course, not only the seniors would sing it, but the other classes and the graduates would rise and join in. This would make a chorus of a thousand voices As anyone knows who attended the under-graduate exercises at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 1886, the result would be no anti-climax. It would be a revelation of the power that lies in one college song...
...Shooting Club is an organization which has never come before the college very prominently. Yet it represents a branch of sport which has been followed with success here, especially in the past year or two. Its rise during that time may be attributed more to the matches which have been played with Yale than to any other cause. They have helped to create a far keener interest than the club had known since its start. The members of the club have taken full advantage of this quickened interest; and they have been working quietly but steadily to make the club...
...salons of Madame de Montesson, Mme. de Remusat, Mme. Recamier, and other brilliant women of that age are vividly described and penpictures are drawn of the wits and geniuses who frequented them. The causes that led to the decline of the salon are indicated-chief among which was the rise in power of the press, for when the press assumed the sovereignty, the salon was dethroned...
...Four Sketches" possess little merit. Perhaps the sketch of "Oblivious of Narka" is the best of the four although even this does not rise above the dead level of mediocrity. With this possible exception, the sketches seem strained and unnatural, and especially applicable is this criticism to "A Surmise about Happiness...
...Department of Economics, in charge of Professor H. C. Adams, Ph. D., of the University of Michigan. Professor Adams will deliver eighteen lectures on the History of Industrial Society in England and America, beginning with the Middle Ages and tracing genetically the gradual rise of those conditions in the labor world which cause so much anxiety and discussion today...