Word: higher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meditation. If we could but be transferred to the age of Abraham, or David, or even Cotton Mather, it would be easy to live a sober and godly life. But now the lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh, and of vain glory undermine the higher aims and motives. And then, all the world meets at our door - people of different habits and ways of life. There is no unanimity of thought and practice; there is uncertainty as to which ways are the right ways; doubt and confusion prevail. The turmoil unsettles belief. How can we obey...
...pleasing news that Yale is breaking from her Chrysalis state as "a college" into "the higher life" of the university is now supplemented by the report that for some time the university has been busying herself in the acquisition of new lands and buildings with the purpose of enlarging her academical domains. We are doubly pleased to hear thus early of the beneficient results of President Dwight's administration. But we sincerely hope that that beneficence will not end at the purchase of buildings and lands. Now that Yale is "really and truly" a university, hope is cherished on every...
...what it really is until to-day, when a petition was filed in the legislature, asking for a special act of incorporation for the Clark University. This petition asks for an act of incorporation establishing at Worcester an institution for the promotion and encouragement of learning, in all its higher branches, with the power to receive and hold real and personal estate, the use and income of which is to be devoted wholly to the purposes of said institution; and to hold, enjoy and exercise all the privileges, immunities, rights and powers, including that of conferring degrees, held, enjoyed...
...teachers. There are certain courses that can be taken only with the consent of the instructor, and certain courses which can be taken only after others have been pursued that are preparatory for them. The elective courses open to freshmen are specified, but those qualified to pursue higher courses in the same departments may obtain leave to do so. This restriction in regard to first year students is very important...
...friends of higher education must rejoice in the announcement that the Pacific States are to possess a university which bids fair to rival in the magnificence of the endowment, and in the completeness of its equipment, the famous colleges of the East. Stanford University promises to be in time, to the States of the Pacific Coast what Harvard or Yale is to the Eastern States. Judging from the plan of Gen. Francis A. Walker, and remembering the Senator Stanford offers several millions for the establishment of the university, we may well feel justified in phrophesying a brilliant future...