Word: rising
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman class games of two days past have given rise to a question which seems to us, to need some consideration. One may well doubt the advisibality of allowing graduates of other colleges who enter one of the professional schools to take part in freshman class games, particularly when these men have come to Harvard with good college athletic records. It seems hardly fair to the rest of the contestants who have come from preparatory schools. The case in point which occurred during the freshman field sports will bear careful consideration...
...Hewlett, '90, has had the coaching in charge, and will continue to do so until next Monday when Duncan Edwards, formerly captain of the 'varsity nine, will take his place. Hewlett keeps his men hard at work, giving them very little time for themselves. They rise early and walk half an hour before breakfast. At eleven they practice passing, blocking, etc, until dinner time. From four to six they play foot ball, and then take a mile run before dinner. The candidates for the rush line are as follows...
...mere conjecture. The Yale News says of the custom: "It is believed to have been introduced at the time the college was founded, and to have been taken from a practice common at that time in New England churches for the congregation at the close of the service to rise and bow as the parson passed down the aisle. This practice of our Puritan ancestors was doubtless due to the reverence paid to superiors, and especially toministers in those days, and indeed the college authorities formulated rules specifying the exact conduct to be followed by a student in each particular...
...from the marshes on the Brighton side of the Charles looking almost eastward. In the foreground at a bend of the river lies an old dismantled boat shaded with marsh grass, and beyond, removed by two bends of the river, a single masted sail boat. Trees cover the rise between the river and the highlands, and over all at the right of the centre stands the tower of Memorial Hall, and by its side the belfry of the old Unitarian church in the square. At the right at a gap between the trees rises the roof of Holyoke House...
...which can not be said of the seats on the Manhattan track. The view from the grand stand is beautiful. The ground gradually recedes till it reaches the Hudson running at some distance in the valley below. On the other side of the river the Palisades begin here to rise to a considerable height and stretch off dimly to the northward...