Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Tennis Association continued its annual tournament on Jarvis Field yesterday. As the good men met each other the standard of play was higher than that of the day before, though not up to the usual standard of Harvard tournaments. The semi-finals and consolations will be played today...
...Museum by Mr. O. B. Henshaw, who obtained it this summer in Eastern California. Much of the brilliant red color of the plant has been lost, but the from is perfectly preserved. The plant receives its name from occurrence near or sometimes in the snow of the higher western mountains...
...turf, over hurdles firmly fixed in the ground, which bring the runner to sudden grief, if he comes in contact with them. This is radically different from the American style of loose hurdles set up on the cinder path. Englishmen claim that it is necessary to jump higher at the English style and that the turf is not so fast as the made path. L. E. Pilkington, the Cambridge representative for the double event, is short and heavy, not unlike Shaw of the London team, in build, and is speedy for the first five hurdles, but does not seem capable...
...recent action of the University Council, steps have been taken towards making scientific and non-professional courses of investigation at the Medical School count for the higher graduate degrees...
...prophet was trying to arouse the people to higher ambitions and a nobler life. He had reasoned with them, had spurred them with a fear of God's judgments, had fired them with a glimpse of the future and of the promises to those that seek the Lord. And then, in the text, he struck their sense of honor and loyalty by an appeal to the past. Their history though checquered had been an honorable one; their father, Abraham, had in the spirit of faith migrated to the west and settled in a new country. From small beginnings they...