Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...where he can get the most good for himself. He works as an individual, progresses as an individual, is promoted as an individual and graduates as an individual," It hardly needs to be pointed out that this is in direct line with the policy adopted by Harvard University in higher education. The lecture is open to the public...
...contains many injustices-(a) 33 1/3per cent of the tax goes to the use of the State and not to the local municipalities.- (b) Certain parts of the State must pay higher licenses than others.- (x) New York, Kings, Erie and Munroe Counties pay higher taxes than St. Lawrence, Clinton, Chautauqua and Cattarugus Counties.- (c) Certain countries are deprived of the right of local self-government.- (d) It is not the part of the State to coerce the individual.- (e) This bill does not allow the people to vote on Sunday license.- (x) It closes the saloons on Sunday...
...their action to give added emphasis to the well-established principle of this University, that the requirements of time for the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Science are wholly secondary. It may safely be assumed,-especially in view of the prevailing tendency to increase the requirements for the higher, or professional, degrees,-that the standards for the doc orates will at least not be lowered, and will be maintained at such a point as ordinarily to demand not less than three years of advanced study for their attainment. But it is no longer necessary that the whole period...
Professor Goodwin then spoke of the Sophists. He said that they did not teach any immoral doctrines, as was generally believed. They seem to have been a set of worthy scholars who craved for higher knowledge. The Sophists were characterized by their opponent, Plato, as the mere reflection of public opinion. Protagoras taught that whatever a man's opinion teaches him is true to that man. The lecturer closed by showing how utterly absurd are the violent charges of immorality attached to this system of belief...
...work of the commission. He first showed that the evils which civil service reform aimed to eradicate were no new thing, but the logical outcome of the world's progress. Thirteen years ago the first law was passed in relation to the reform movement. It sought to remove the higher offices from the control of the party spoilsmen. Since that time the idea has by degrees obtained a firmer footing, until today we have 55,000 positions open to men by competition. The speaker traced the reform in its various phases up to the present time, showing the great widening...