Word: rising
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plot of the comedy is developed around the rise and fall of a Bolshevik prince, who usurps the throne of the Kingdom of Ptomainia, only to lose his insecure seat later, because of his tyranical mismanagement of the affairs of that worthy empire. The action is divided into three acts and five scenes, entitled respectively, "The Day Before Yesterday," "Yesterday," "Today," "Tomorrow," and "The Day After Tomorrow...
...following official statement of the chancellor of Syracuse is printed in explanation of that University's method of awarding war credits to returning officers and enlisted men. Erroneous and in completed reports of Syracuse's action appeared several weeks ago in the eastern papers, and gave rise to the editorial in the CRIMSON of February 12, entitled "Unhonored and Unsung." We are glad to learn that these reports are not correct, though we still question the advisability of distinguishing between men technically trained officers and untrained privates in awarding war credits; the University's system of treating all men returning...
...Dormitory players. Seventy-six members of the class of 1922 are enrolled in the various squads of the Freshman Athletic class, which stands fourth in numbers. Baseball is next with 57 battery candidates, but when the infield and outfield men are called out this week its total will rise much higher. Tennis, stands last, claiming only 12 men. There is no regular practice in this sport, but approximately a dozen former University and Freshman players are practising several days a week in the covered court at Chestnut Hill...
...degree of A.M. at Harvard in 1888. In 1889 he became an assistant in physics in the University, in 1890 an instructor, in 1895 an assistant professor, and in 1905 he was made a full professor, and in addition Dean of the Scientific School. Such was the unusually rapid rise in the field of science of Wallace Clement Sabine...
...played by the band; perhaps it will be when a line of veterans passes by on parade; perhaps it will be before the glowing fireside where old age looks out over the past,--then the memory of some humorous and forgotten incident or the thought of a friend will rise out of the obscurity of the past and lend to the mind that inward satisfaction that comes from the assurance of a youth well spent...