Word: high
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: "Resolved, That a high protective tariff raises actual wages...
...December number of the Graduates' Magazine contains some very pointed remarks on the absence about the college of any memorial tablets to mark places of historic interest. As the writer says, "Certainly much interest and charm, and much stimulus to high thought and noble life, are lost to the students at Harvard who never wake to the fact that it is their privilege to pass three or four years amid scenes dignified by the recollections of great...
...before us," taken from Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews. He said: When Paul wrote that, he had before him a vision of the great games, and he speaks at first enthusiastically for there was no one who would not do his best to win or get a high place in the Olympic games. As Paul turns aside to the race of life there comes to his tone a touch of sadness. That is the race that can be won only by long and patient toil. All Paul can say is "let us run with patience." There are many...
...this system immediately puts a high premium on A's and B's. When a student finds that the change of a single mark would have meant a hundred dollars to him, and when he is in sore straits for the means to his college expenses, there is hardly a limit to the amount of work he feels spurred on to do. If the scholarships never induced men to work themselves beyond reason, well and good. But the fact, patent to every one, is that men do overwork for these scholarships. There is, in our opinion, no small number...
Camera Club.This evening the Camera Club will give an exhibition of prize English slides for 1892. These include many excellent portraits and marine views, also some slides on athletic life at Oxford, while the landscapes maintain as high an average as that of the last exhibition of the Harvard Club. In addition to these, several slides will be shown from the Albany and Portland Camera Clubs, the first exchanges of the year...