Word: rising
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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From this analysis of the standards by which the progress of nations is measured it will appear that the western nations are not as progressive as they seem. If the present generations persist in following the methods of their fathers, the west will sink to where it cannot rise. In the east there is a balance held between material progress and spiritual progress, and it would be the saving of the west to maintain a like balance...
...with a clean record does not fear exposure; his past needs no attention, and he has no ghosts that he fears will rise. A clean record is the only secret of a strong character. A man cannot be strong when he is constantly trying to conceal something in his past. If he would be strong he must have a character with no stains. He cannot stop and discuss every moral question that arises, but he must be so set in his character that he can take only one side of a moral issue. A man with a clean record...
...interested in undergraduate literary work should fail to read "The Immigrant", by C. T. Ryder '06, which was awarded the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize last June. This poem, written in three sonnets, shows a strong individuality and gives rise to the question so rarely asked by critics of college verse, "Who could have done it better...
...Soldiers of Fortune" and the "Ghost's Song," where the themes show considerable power of emotional expression, it is at times too heavy to suit the comic vein. Book and lyrics, by G. Aertsen, Jr., '05, are full of unexpected conceits. Though not always entirely effective, they occasionally rise to a very happy order of wit which is irresistible...
...trade unionist's desire for more, a desire that will continue and increase with every rise in his condition, is no different from the desire for more felt by all men from the tramp to the millionaire. Trade unions have given workmen a higher regard for the interests of their fellows and justify their existence, not only on grounds of justice and humanity, but on those of sound economy...