Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...world of today especially needs. The age is a cyclops with the keen but narrow vision of its single eye for materialism. In America, where the child nation's body is scarcely grown and its sould but beginning to develop, sordid prosperity, even more than elsewhere, deadens man's higher senses and encourages his skepticism for everything except selfish gain...
...have been most active in accomplishing these reforms are M. Breal, of the Institute; M. Darboux, Dean of the Paris Faculty of Science, and M. Liard, Director-General of Higher Instruction in France...
...Medical School. In his report to the President for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dean Peirce alludes to this subject and gives this significant vote of the Faculty passed at the end of the last academic year: "that there be added to the Committee on Honors and Higher Degrees in the Division of Natural History representatives of those departments of the Medical School wherein studies of a scientific non-professional kind are prosecuted; and this with the intention of providing an arrangement whereby students registered in the Graduate School and studying in the Medical School may proceed...
...amount of instruction offered by Harvard College. The "other seven-eighths," he observes, "although indispensable for an institution with the resources and aims of Harvard College, are really provided at great cost, first to meet the wants of a comparatively small but precious minority, and secondly to meet the higher part of the needs of the great majority,- higher needs which are few in comparison with the number of their lower needs." Surely this is a statement of great significance...
...great majority of the students, and the other seven-eighths, although indispensable for an institution with the resources and aims of Harvard College, are really provided at great cost, first to meet the intellectual wants of a comparatively small but precious minority and secondly to meet the higher needs of the great majority.- higher needs which are few in comparison with their lower needs...