Word: rising
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Appreciation of the Drama," by Charles H. Caffin; "Renaissance of the English Drama," by Henry Arthur Jones; "Shamrock Land," by Plummer F. Jones; "Charles Dickens," by Frederic G. Kitton; "A History of Spanish Literature," by James Fitz-Maurice Kelly; "The Spanish People," by Martin A. S. Hume; "The Rise of the Greek Epic," by Gilbert Murray; "The American College," by Abraham Flexner; "Justice and Liberty," by G. L. Dickinson; "The Wooing of Calvert Parks," by L. E. Richards; "The Man From Home," by Booth Tarkington and H. L. Wilson, Ph.D...
...took the consequences for. Mr. Harrison, who was our next President, was a clear-minded, clever lawyer, but narrow and bigoted in religious matters. Mr. Wise first met William McKinley in Congress. His chief fault was his inability to free himself from the influences about him. The rise of President Roosevelt to power has been entirely due to his aggressiveness. Mr. Wise's acquaintance with the next President, William H. Taft, began when Mr. Taft was a judge in Cincinnati...
...baffling northwest wind in the faces of the shooters was somewhat troublesome. The best individual score was made by B. M. Higginson '10, who broke 46 out of a possible 50 birds. The Sargent system of traps was used, the birds being sent out with a 16-yard rise, at unknown angles...
...will be a great game, the greatest of the year. Who can tell whether a Yale team which has only recently found itself can rise to the occasion and gain victory from a Harvard team whose progress has been consistent, steady and rightly timed to meet occasions as they appeared? Who can tell whether Yale strategic ability, the result of long and constant application, can cope with Harvard's newly applied organization of football intelligence and come out the victor...
...event on the program gives rise to some comment. The first entertainment proposed is a "dinner to the University eleven if the season's results are sufficiently fortunate to justify it." This is a strong implication that the season's work is worthy of reward only if the team beats Yale and that a dinner will be given to the team only under those conditions. Criticism is sometimes made of the coaching policy of a team in sacrificing anything during the season to gain victory in the final game and claiming the season to be successful or unsuccessful according...