Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Freshmen Class of '99 is the largest in the history of the College, numbering 462, only 17 of whom were men dropped from a higher class...
...effect produced by the large number of facts presented is the feeling that it is high time the public again seriously consider the subject of the public school work. There is need of a higher degree of efficiency in teachers in many states, but there is still greater need of a keener appreciation on the part of the public of the teachers' work and the difficulties under which they labor. In general it may be said that every community has the kind of public schools that it deserves to have...
...Vesper Service yesterday afternoon was conducted by the Rev. S. M. Crothers of Cambridge. Mr. Crothers spoke on the higher purpose of culture. He said in effect...
...administration which has been its own and to which its present important position in the University is largely due. Under that administration the large resources of the University have been put to more extensive and systematic use in the interests of advanced study and research, and the cause of higher education throughout the country has been steadily advanced...
...judicious study of the needs of the School, and he has been enabled thereby to introduce numerous improvements in administration. It shows the breadth of his mind that the multitude of administrative details which have of necessity beset him on all sides, have not blinded him to the higher needs of the School, but that his reforms have given greater simplicity in administration and greater freedom (without license) to the students...