Word: higher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...movement toward a higher and broader system of education in Harvard to day, and in particularly the attempts which are being made this year to rid the present system of puerile restrictions and conditions, show their effect nowhere more forcibly than in some of the examination papers prepared for the present mid-year examinations...
...reformers who decline to relinquish the degree of A. B., with all that it implies, to the conservatives, may contend that it has long meant nothing more than graduation from a higher institution of learning. It threw some light on the probable courses of study of the recipient, but none at all on the quality of his instruction or the height of culture and discipline attained. For all practical purposes it was necessary to affix the name of the college or "university" conferring the degree. This is still and will always be necessery, and the conservatives have a complete remedy...
...graduates towards their alma mater. There is no greater pleasure, perhaps, to the graduate of middle life, engrossed in the cares of business or professional life than these annual dinners, such as are now celebrated throughout New England. It is a noteworthy sign of the great interest taken in higher education that so many eminent men should attend these gatherings, and should discuss so earnestly and thoroughly the great questions of the day in collegiate methods of instruction. While a dinner of Harvard alumni would be an impossibility in the vicinity of Boston, as no hotel would be able...
Greece has 33 gymnasium, 200 secondary schools and 1717 primary schools. These are all public. Among the private educational establishments, the first place must be given to the Society for the Higher Education of Women in connection with which a lycee for girls was established a few years ago, with a staff of 76 teachers and 1476 pupils, Greeks send their girls there from all parts of the east. Education is very liberally endowed in Greece, and the sums which Greeks settled in foreign counties send home for this purpose are very large. - N. Y. Post...
...work; but with this aptitude training can do almost anything. Thus if the largest possible number of men were kept in training in one way or another, gaps would be easily supplied with men at any rate seasoned by long practice, if they had no other valuable qualities. The higher the training of the college at large, the less dependent we shall be on what we may call the stars of the athletic worlds and the better able to produce teams, if not of conspicuous, at any rate of even merit, from year to year. The great strength...