Word: higher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact that there are good and bad methods of teaching, and that the post graduate study of pedagogy should be encouraged. The instructors should be chosen for their power to teach, and not entirely for what they may know. Both professors and tutors should be paid much higher salaries, and the larger courses provided with additional instructors. Finally the alumnus demands, what seems most significant in view of the self-righteousness of present Yale undergraduate opinion, namely, that compulsory attendance at prayers shall be abolished, together with all ranking that depends on marks...
...following clipping from the Lasell Leaves shows the state of the newspaper file at that institution "for the higher education of women:" "We hear that the only rival of the Harvard Lampoon now is the Police Gazette. We know little regarding the literary merits of the latter, but conclude its editors must stand as the head ranks of journalists to be compared to those of the Lampoon...
...forms" consist of a plank, placed horizontally, with the hard side up, to sit upon, with another plank higher up to serve as a writing desk. Upon a victim attempting to assume an upright position, this latter plank comes into play upon the small of the back, after the manner of one of the ingenious devices of the Inquisition. These forms are shellackd, stained, or painted black, according to the taste of the architect, and numbered so as to contain twice their natural complement of occupants. The chairs, fastened together as in the larger lecture rooms, offer no special peculiarities...
...brightest and most strong-minded women who ever attended Cornell, and whose marriage (as reported) to a distinguished Russian Nihilist was announced some months ago is well remembered at Zurich, Switzerland, where she was one of a little band of students who there sought the higher degrees which they were not allowed to take in other German Universities. While at Zurich, Miss Kelly was prominent in a woman's rights movement which resulted in sending a petition to Congress, though it is not learned that it resulted in anything. - Cornell...
...knowing the pleasures, possibly even having some time enjoyed them, at length overcomes temptation? According to a milk-and-water standard of morality, the former is the better man, there hangs around him an air of immaculate purity, wings might become him. But is not the latter really morally higher; does he not have more of sturdy manliness...