Word: higher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which no cultivation is necessary. A natural instinct calls out for it. Just as a famous singer like Jenny Lind has some songs which appeal only to the musically educated, but at the same time others which go to the heart of everybody. Sincerity is transparency to a higher light; that as a vase, when held against the window, discloses its flaws, so by this light our nature may show its imperfections. Here is ground on which atheists and believers may unite. For light is a relative term. The greatest sincerity will come from the greatest light and the height...
Thus ended the great games with the Lowells, where excitement over athletics between town and gown rose to a higher height than it ever did before, and probably ever will again...
...good reason be assigned why - for instance - the worthy occupant of Yale's chair of Moral Philosophy should not be invited by appreciative alumni to take something? True, it may be said that moral philosophy is a no-account study, while boating is an indispensable of the higher education. But to grant that this is so is not to admit that the professor of moral philosopy is not entitled to a complimentary dinner. It simply shows that he cannot justly claim as good a dinner as Mr. Cook can. If the boating dinner is in fourteen courses, the moral philosophy...
...Doesn't get a good seat. Hangs at full reach and overreaches. Must keep shoulders down and back. Doesn't straighten arms. Must keep head up and wrists straight. Must sit higher...
...distinct and very often antagonistic tastes. Thus then, there will exist by the side of the club proposed all the social interests now existing. It requires no argument to show which of the two will fall. To attempt by the formation of a common relation, which can claim no higher legitimacy than the interest formed by mere residence at our university, to do away with distinctions brought here from life, must be futile. A club house will attract in the degree in which it is attractive. For a time such a club might prove successful, but as the interest...