Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...noble purpose, relying only on his own brain, character and ability, can meet all classes on the common, equal level of privilege and opportunity; be treated as a brother and equal; and thus become inspired with the noblest impulses that can thrill the human soul--the ambition to lift up his head in the sunlight of hope and thank God and take on new courage...
...direction of Modeste E. Alloo, a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and former member of the Pierian. The orchestra expects to accomplish a great deal in musical achievement this year. Although popular programmers will be prepared, in case of demand, Mr. Alloo's endeavor will be to lift the orchestra out of its traditional rut of popular music, and to put more of the classic and serious modern music into the season's repertoire. By thus affording to students the opportunity for serious study of master works, it is believed that the orchestra will come nearer to fulfilling...
...tackle on one side of centre with the two guards, the remaining tackle and end playing in the order named on the other side. In the second line of offence Yale places her quarterback directly behind right guard, the left halfback taking the identical position behind lift guard, with right half back standing about four yards further back in a direct line with centre, about a yard or two in front of the fullback. The University backfield assumes an entirely different formation on the offence the quarterback standing close behind centre with the three backs over to one side...
...himself in that line. The student who chose that work because he had to concentrate in something may well feel he is getting more than he bargained for. This is not a criticism; the result-to make study in that division more in the way of laboratory work, to lift it out of the region of inconsequent eclectic undergraduate education may be more serious. The decline or increase in the number of men in the Division will show to what an extent the work there is taken for serious reasons, not as a line of least resistance...
...keeping with our boasted civilization. This realization will be brought by processes of enlightenment and education, and it is in just such processes that our colleges, if they are to live up to the ideals of their founders, should take a leading part. They should make every effort to lift the nations of the world out of the ever deeper rut of militarism, onto the broad highway of international law and reason...