Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...experience of Dante in the world of the dead has been preternatural; from this time on it is supernatural. That there is much in this part of the Divine Comedy that will seem crude in conception is unquestionable, but to the careful student and to the lover of higher poetry, Dante's picture of Paradise will be a fitting conclusion to his wonderful poem. In studying Dante we should bear in mind that he had no mode or guide to follow in his writing. The Divine Comedy was the first poem of its kind that the world had seen...
...reliance may confidently be placed, and is therefore unbecoming in young boys, whose characters are necessarily unformed. The boarding school too often developes not true manliness, but rather a heedless independence which is incompatible with it. To put a boy in the way of such development the neglect of higher, is a grave mistake. Self-reliance should not be born of mere freedom from restraint, but of a consciousness of power which can hardly accompany the school boy's immaturity...
...believe that the exertion of Harvard's strong influence, by a considerable increase in the severity of the entrance examination in English is demanded by the cause of reform. Beyond doubt it would be vastly to Harvard's own advantage in maintaining her character as an institution of higher education...
...carried into daily work to such an extent that the real student is rarely developed before the junior or senior year, and often not by the end of the course. With such a vital difficulty to meet, how can the college hope to fulfill satisfactorily its function of higher education...
...glorious thing to lay hold of the good things in this world but they are all in vain if the spirit does not respond to the higher call and lay hold of the good things which are to last through all the everlasting ages...