Word: rising
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dinner there will be an international entertainment made up of musical and specialty numbers, given entirely by undergraduates and students in the graduate schools. Preceding the speeches, messages will be read from several ambassadors and others who were unable to accept the invitation to the dinner. As each speaker rises to respond to his toast, the members of the club will rise and sing one verse of the speaker's national song, except in the case of President Eliot, when they will sing "Fair Harvard...
...President as host to foreign visitors, from all over the world. Then might come another series, giving the student of today some more definite idea of the changes in this single administration of forty years. It would be well to read something further about the steps in the rise of standard with increase of numbers; of the tenfold increase of officers, all of whom are now appointees of the present administration; and of the growth of University income from $20,000 to $2,000,000. But the nine articles already give a good picture; a record of active patience upholding...
...basin on Wednesday. On Tuesday there was a second cut in the University squad, two eights being retained. The work of the crew has been harder this week in view of the fact that the race with Columbia comes on April 17. The boat has a tendency to rise and fall instead of gliding smoothly and evenly, and Coach Wray has been laying special emphasis on getting hold of the water firmly at the catch and pulling the oars through evenly. Yesterday the second crew tried the new Crowninshield shell, and went better than they have so far this year...
Northfield is situated in a beautiful portion of the Connecticut Valley in northern Massachusetts. It is built on the high hills that rise from the Connecticut River, and from these there is a fine view of the surrounding country. The delegates are lodged according to preference, either in tents, or in one of the buildings of the Northfield Seminary, which are vacated before the opening of the conference...
There is one aspect of the situation which is usually overlooked. Supposing the Hall were obliged to shut down: the result would be an immediate rise in the price of board in the other eating places of probably a dollar more per week. Those men who are now paying $5 or $6 a week for board in the Mount Auburn street region would be obliged to pay $6 or $7. This is most undesirable but cannot happen as long as Memorial can be operated...