Word: higher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first place it would lead to a better, more thorough knowledge of some of the famous old playwrights than the average Harvard student now has; and, as we stated before, it would promote the study of elocution, the art of good delivery, of proper gesticulation to a higher and broader level than they hold to-day in the University. Then the association would materially aid the athletic organizations in a financial way. To quote from our columns of yesterday...
...bequeathed by the late Uriah A. Boyden, should be given over by the trustees to the care of the Harvard observatory. For where in this country can be found an astronomical observatory so well equipped in every particular, or scientists of greater ability and of higher reputation? Indeed, while we think with pride of the great names in science which now and in the past have shed their glory on the University, it is also to be remembered that the professors of astronomy at the Harvard observatory, as well as those justly placed among the founders modern chemistry, zoology, botany...
...athletic games. The canons of form they produced have fashioned the feeling for form and proportion ever since. The reason of its widespread influence is that Greek art was at the same realistic and identical. Before art can gain universal validity it must pass through nature and rise higher than the reality from which it is conceived, and this is what happened in Greece. The influence of the athletic games can hardly be exaggerated. They gave the artist a chance to study the human form, and the continual practice of athletes for the games so impressed the correct form...
...sheet about the size of the present DAILY CRIMSON and devoted to the same class of news. It in no way interfered with the other journals and led a prosperous existence until the fall of '82, when it was succeeded by a larger sheet, and of a somewhat higher tone, called "The Harvard Herald," a name that was changed at the beginning of the following year to "The Daily Herald." In October of the same year a consolidation was effected between "The Crimson," which had been appearing semi-monthly, and "The Daily Herald," and a new daily was formed...
...Ross, of Montreal, has given $400,000 for the purpose of founding a college in that city for the higher education of women...