Many a superintendent has had to double the hill of a swelled knob, and run as a last section into the next promotion terminal.
However, there are hardly enough promotion loaves and fishes to go around.
Gradually they secure it, and channels of promotion and appointment are defined.
As long as man loves woman and that woman's children the relatives of the management will always be the easiest for the promotion call-boy to find.
Then if anybody drops out through promotion or otherwise your task is a simple one.
You feel that a man from another division has been forced on you by the general superintendent; that you have suffered a personal affront because the promotion you recommended on your own division has not been approved.
The management look in vain for promotion material and wonder at the seeming ingratitude in quitting of so many good young men whom it was fully intended to promote--in the sweet by and by.
Both these positions are filled by the promotion of experienced men in the classified Civil Service.
Vacancies are filled from a certified list of those who have passed a Civil Service examination or by promotion from the lower ranks.
Mr. Lincoln admitted the justice of my demand for equal pay and promotion of colored soldiers, but on the matter of retaliation he differed from me entirely.
I urged, among other things, the necessity of granting the colored soldiers equal pay and promotion with white soldiers, and retaliation for colored prisoners killed by the enemy.
But with the votaries of crime the apex of promotion is—the gibbet!
The undersigned respectfully beg that you will obtain the promotion of Sheridan.
I was fortunate enough to be of some little service to Miss Stirling's friends on the range, and I fancied that because of it you meant to offer me promotion of some kind," he said.
As you belong to the other service, there is little fear the General can hurt your promotion for merely speaking the truth.
Captain Cranstoun, I have the honor of wishing you a safe passage, and speedy promotion in Heaven," said Middlemore, draining off his glass.
Soon after their return to Castle St. Aubyn, letters from Mr. Ross and Joanna arrived, filled with thanks and rejoicings for the promotion of Charles.
But yesterday it came to my knowledge that the promotion intended for me had been granted to the solicitations of Lord St. Aubyn.
You did know her enough to solicit my good offices in promotion of your suit; and you did, at my advice, quit Paris to seek her at Aix-la-Chapelle.
In an evil day Charles Monnier, enrolled in the National Guard, had received promotion in that patriotic corps.
Especially during the past year much was done through these agencies for the promotion of rural life, social and educational.
But there have been a sufficient number of exposés, as well as court decisions, to make the business of fraudulent land promotion a dangerous one.
A number of states have enacted laws for the promotion and protection of co-operation among farmers.
For promotion of Americanization, settlers should learn English and American ways of life--attend evening schools.
This promotion was the first which he had obtained.
He was delighted to hear him protest one day that he had had nothing to do with the promotion of that poor Le Bourguignon, it was an attention to the marquise.
Barker had been in the adjutant's office under three different regimental commanders, and, as etiquette required, had tendered his resignation to Button on that officer's promotion to the colonelcy.
He said that he was the most importunate suitor for preferment ever known; and that himself had been the bearer of letters to great men, soliciting promotion to livings, and had hardly escaped kicking down stairs.
Last week I published the Lives of the Poets, written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend to the promotion of piety.
It is time to end social promotion in America's schools.
Chicago stopped social promotion and started mandatory summer school to help students who are behind to catch up.
Barry, and owed his earlypromotion to her influence.
Many of the professors appreciated the backwardness of Germany, and the students formed secret associations for the destruction of local prejudice and the promotion of a large patriotism.
The Legislature shall encourage, by all suitable means, thepromotion of intellectual, scientific, moral and agricultural improvement.
Indeed, the Jew used his gains won by trade in the service of the promotion of learning, and thus his entire industry assumed a higher character.
Gustav Karpeles, President of the Society for the Promotion of the Science of Judaism in Berlin, I undertook to write a compendium (Grundriss) of Systematic Jewish Theology, which appeared in 1910 as Vol.
Just after Mueller's promotion to the doctorate in medicine, the Rhenish universities came once more under the authority of the Prussian government, and Berlin became a Mecca for students, who looked upon it in a way as the mother university.
Schwann was one of the lowest in rank of the assistants; the professor was only just beyond the prime of life; and before Schwann on the list for promotion was at least one man, Henle, who had already done distinguished work.
Their promotion seldom comes from the institution where they have done their work, unless it should be one of the smaller universities; but the invitation to a chair at a university will come sooner or later for meritorious research.
Donnelly's growing popularity and his ambition for promotion to the Senate soon became a matter of alarm to the friends of Senator Ramsey, who controlled the Republican party in the State.
He enlisted in the army as a private in 1861, displayed great bravery at the battles of Donelson and Shiloh, and received rapid promotion to the rank of colonel.
For a belief that affairs consequently were carried on with less vigour than before, or that the nation was unequally oppressed by the promotion of foreigners, neither the documents nor experience afford a reason.
Copenhagen could not be made great and prosperous by luxury and an increase of the number of consumers to the detriment of the provinces, but by real industry and promotion of the foreign trade.
In 1745 Warren played a part in the Siege of Louisbourg that won him promotion to the rank of Rear Admiral of the Blue, and his knighthood.
After his promotion to lieutenant Kotzebue was placed in command of an expedition, fitted out at the expense of the imperial chancellor, Count Rumantsoff, in the brig "Rurick.
The knight bachelor whose services and landed possessions entitled him to promotion would apply formally to the commander in the field for the title of banneret.
