Word: rising
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This afternoon two baseball teams with diametrically opposite records will face each other at New Haven. The Yale team, with a nucleus from last year's unbeaten nine, was expected to have another championship season. Its three early victories and the rise of a new star pitcher bade fair to fulfill this prophecy. But, in spite of its favorable start, the Eli craft has had a rocky voyage. A long losing streak, in which the pitching hope was twice driven from the box, has spread a cloud of gloom over Yale's great expectations...
Graduates of all classes will doubtless remember, perhaps with a smile, that it has always been the CRIMSON'S stately privilege to rise politely and deliver congratulations, welcomes, and glad words to fit any and every occasion of the College year. But it is in no such perfunctory spirit that the CRIMSON steps forward today to salute the graduates...
...cannot ever threaten to upset the world again, and is getting back, in some measure, what he gave us." Others find in it cause for skepticism. They think that taking Germany's colonies, imposing heavy indemnities, and literally holding down the Hun on every side that he may never rise again, will cause a bitterness to prevail that can never be eradicated...
...everybody. Some of my friends have told me that they believe that there will be permanent benefit to the spirit of the country. History, however, shows that every great period of war has been followed by an age of materialism and selfishness. The Civil War was followed by the rise of Tammany Hall and the Tweed Ring. The Napoleonic Wars were followed by the growth of the factory system...
...Board is prepared to train such men on its squadron of commercial cruisers. For this, a knowledge of Spanish would be of great value, as the need in South America for young men who have managerial ability is very great. For a college man of intelligence, this chance to rise to a position of trust in a large trading firm is most inviting...