Word: rising
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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However, the die has now been cast, and it is up to everybody worthy of the name of American to abide by its consequences. I sincerely believe that I am speaking for all German-Americans when I say that we will support the President through thick and thin and rise and fall with him. We may not enter into the conflict, if there is to be a conflict, as joyfully and eagerly as some others, but though our hearts are heavy and our souls are sick we see our duty clearly, and will not hestitate to perform...
...result of continual deficits, the unrestricted capital fund of the University has been greatly reduced in the past ten years. The most important effect of this policy of retrenchment has been in preventing the Corporation from granting the teaching force increased salaries to meet the great rise in the cost of living. The following table shows how slow has been the increase in the College teaching budget since...
...interesting to compare the salary figures with the rise in the cost of living during the same interval. Bradstreet's index number which represents the average totals of the prices per pound of 96 commodities was given as $8.05 plus for the year 1904. The corresponding figure on December 31, 1916, was $13.66 plus, an increase of over 69 per cent in 12 years. The salary in the College has increased only 17 per cent, in same period...
...admission will be four dollars for each man and an additional two dollars for each lady. The Committee regrets that the amount has necessarily had to be increased since it may tend to keep a few men from the dance, but it seemed absolutely necessary because of the rise in expenses...
...hockey series is altogether desirable. It offers to the novice, the "dub," a chance for sport and that competitive excitement without which all sport is barren. As in football and baseball occasionally a star is developed from an untrained man in the scrub series, as from the club crews rise 'varsity oars, and from handicap track meets point-winners for the team, so the chance is offered for unskilled players to learn in the scrub hockey games to become real stars...