Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...conservatism of the English people has acted as a check upon their legislation, and the lower classes have not been represented in Parliament, but have been contented to be ruled by the higher classes. England is virtually an aristocracy. The United States is a democracy. Our machinery of Government is careful and more safe...
...higher liberal education in Greece in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries...
...said that if the music was of a higher and more serious nature there would be less objection to the trip. But this objection is founded upon misconception of the true object of a college Glee Club. If our graduates wish to listen to classical music they will seek professional musicians. Men engaged in the serious work of life go to a Glee Club concert to renew their relations with their Alma Mater and to live over, to some extent, their college days. If the concert does not satisfy this desire it is a failure. To demand, therefore, that...
...Musical Clubs do not, to be sure, represent on their trips the higher intellectual side of the University; but they do represent an important part in the well proportioned training which the University offers...
...other names may be added to it later. A vacancy caused by some withdrawal is generally, but not necessarily, filled by the appointment of a student in the same department of study as that to which the original appointee was referred; but a vacancy in one of the higher scholarships is sometimes filled by the promotion of a student already appointed to a lower one, and this is done at the discretion of the Committee, no application being needed, while the lower scholarship, thus vacated by promotion, is assigned to a student not previously provided...