Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...satisfactory food during the season of strict training, suggest the need for some such saving arrangement as a cooperative training table. The prices at which alone the men can be accommodated at separate tables, are in all cases too high for the quality of food which is furnished; not higher, perhaps, than those who board the crews are entitled to ask, but higher than the crew managers should continue to pay if cooperative boarding could reduce the amount. The class crews are not self-supporting, and it is only fair to those who do support them that the expenses should...
...first half it would be known as that of science; if it were to be named for its last quarter, in would be called the woman's century. Even though the new movement offends their vanity, men should take the right and generous view of the subject. The higher education of women is of the noblest and most characteristic movements of our time. In the state of Massachusetts there are forty thousand more women than men. When one considers that many of these women will in all probability have to support themselves, one should be very glad...
...circular has been issued entitled, "An Appeal to the Friends of Higher Education of Women." The circular says: "This (the proposed) system of co-education embraces substantially all the advantages of co-education without any of its disadvantages. It also places Brown University, as a provider of higher education for women, in advance of all the other old American colleges. Thus Yale provides instruction only for graduate women. Radcliffe College instructs undergraduates, but its courses do not lead to Harvard degrees...
...after all, a fiction for which the college seal is largely responsible. Such doubts are suggested less by occasional violations of honor in the college life than by the difficulty of believing that there is anything about a constantly changing community like ours, which should really put a higher premium upon sincerity than is done in the world at large...
...explanation of the higher standard of honor at Harvard found in the very thing which seems to be lacking under the conditions described above: namely, a thorough understanding between fellow-students and between instructors and students, that each man is to stand on his own merits and to be taken absolutely at his word? Such an understanding entirely disarms the simple-minded person who considers the college course as a warfare between teachers and taught in which "all is fair" that wins...