Word: rising
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Corporation is willing to guarantee the maintenance of a lower price proves that the management is being supported by this body in its efforts to place Memorial Hall on its proper footing in the University, and this should restore the confidence which has been shaken by the gradual rise in the price of general board. With the assurance that the price will not exceed a fixed amount, the uncertainty which has driven many members away will cease, and a growing and well-satisfied membership will probably result in a further reduction--one which would never have been possible under...
...assume that some competitive system is desirable, for popular election or direct appointment are open to much greater abuses than the existing practice. But the qualifications required of a manager give rise to one serious objection. No defeated candidate can feel dissatisfied if he is beaten by a man who has proved more efficient, but if he himself has been clearly in the lead in the actual competition and is defeated because he is not the sort of a man who would be popular with the players or represent the University creditably, his work seems worse than useless...
American--"The Rise of David Warfield," by W. P. Eaton...
Fellowship with the Divine is just as normal as with the human: what is more, it is necessary in order for a leader to be really human, and in it there is also an element by which we can rise above the commonplace...
...following books by Harvard graduates have recently been published: "The Rise of American Nationality," by K. C. Babcock '95; "The Hook," by L. J. Bridgman '81; "The Jeffersonian System," by E. Channing '78; "Under the Laurel," by F. Crowninshield '60; "Provincial America," by E. B. Greene '90; "Slavery and Abolition," by A. B. Hart '80; "The Appeal to Arms," by J. K. Hosmer '55; "Edgar Allan Poe," by J. A. Macy '99; "Greece and the Aegean Islands," by P. S. Marden L.'98; "Mornings in the College Chapel," by F. G. Peabody '69; "A Flight to Eden...