Word: rising
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...same factories exhibit great diversity in scope of power. Democracy is not equality of all men, but equality of opportunity. No artificial restrictions should limit any man's power. Let the president hold his position through his inborn capacity, let the laborer be such through inability to rise. Freedom of opportunity is the ideal to be fought...
...Club will present this year a light musical comedy entitled "The Wanderer." The principal points in the play are the kidnapping of an American by the Sultan of Morocco; the winning of the Sultan's friendship by the American; the American's love for one of the Harem; his rise to position of Sultan pro tem; the troubles caused by his unexpected dignity; and finally his eagerness to depart from the scenes around which the play is built...
...Christmas number of the Advocate, which appears today, contains the following articles: "The Rise and Fall of Lady Angela de Vere," by E. B. Sheldon '08; "The Coming of the Kings," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07; "The Christmas Story," by E. D. Biggers '07; "The Heart of a Tree," by W. Goodwin '07; "The Masque of Creeds," by V. W. Brooks '08; "Mud Hollow and Christmas," by W. L. Stoddard '07; "The Christmas Goat...
...first place we contend that the presence of intercollegiate football in college life offers, more than any other undergraduate activity, a clean and whole-some interest for the student, giving rise to a pure atmosphere in college life that would otherwise be lacking. We contend that as a consequence of the presence of this institution there is created more than from any other cause a wholesome outlet for the surplus energy of the student; that it has completely solved that problem which has harassed faculties since American colleges began. In the second place we contend that this intercollegiate game develops...
...form of such college pranks as ragging of signs, gate lifting, and hazing. Those disorders have now practically disappeared from American college life, and the cause of their disappearance, in the opinion of such men as Professor Adams of Wisconsin and Dean Briggs of Harvard, has been the rise of athletics, which rise is due for the most part to the great American game, intercollegiate football...