Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...word concerning the present system of arranging for the dinner. In the first place every student who entered the University in the fall of 1893, whether in the Scientific School or the College, and every student who has since joined the class, except those who entered with a higher class, is at liberty to attend the dinner...
...writer in one place speaks of the stimulus that liberal prizes like the scholarships would be to the rich man. What powerful incentive would money be to the man who already has plenty? The chief incentive to such a man would be the honor gained, and there are higher honors open to the scholar than those which are called scholarships. If the scholarships were open to those men who had plenty of money, it would be hardly fair to the poorer students. A rich man would feel when he won a scholarship that the money would far better have gone...
...seems from this that with more experimental work and a higher current, say, 50,0000 volts, that an instantaneous photograph may be taken, and the heavier parts of the body readily photographed...
...second advantage of great importance is a higher degree of stability gained for the compounded mass of money thus formed, than could possibly exist with the two metals separate. The principle is the same as that by which two reservoirs of water, when connected, moderate each other's change of level by the increase of surface...
...Frese's two classes in vocal music, one of Radcliffe and the other of Harvard students, united yesterday afternoon in the study of choruses from Sullivan's opera, "The Pirates of Penzance." The combined class is ultimately expected to contain forty Radcliffe students. With the new voices for the higher parts, the work will be much more effective and the results promise to be very satisfactory...