Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...institutions. And yet Harvard has maintained her reputation as a centre of learning so effectively that last year she attracted an increased number of students in the Central, Western and Southern sections of the country. This year, despite even the financial depression which is so serious a check to higher education, there is no decrease, but rather a strong increase. A moment's thought on the conditions under which this increase has been made reveals what a great tribute it is to the strength of Harvard...
...that I would commend these books, but the languages as ladders to them, where by we may climb to a larger outlook over men and things, to a retreat lifted above the noises of the world. It is not the scholarship I look at, but the sympathy with their higher mood, with that sweetness that comes with age to good books as to good men. Mere scholarship is as useless as the collecting of old postage stamps. Kant used to say that there was nothing in the world so dreary as the company of mere scholars. With nothing but Lemprire...
...choice selection of the plants which were favorites in English gardens in the time of Queene Anne. Just beyond, there is a brilliant mass of "flame" Azaleas and Rhododendrons, with their humbler relatives from the swamps. Further on is a large group of desert plants, fringed under the higher maples and magnolias, with tree ferns and palms from the conservatory. Fronting these are clustered excellent representatives of the flora of the Australasian colonies. If the walk be now continued through the main paths, one comes in succession upon the representative plants of the northern flora of our own country, here...
Such a report is plainly apt to do damage; the fear of higher tuition fees would tend to keep many men from coming to the University. They would reason that all safe calculations of expenses must be based, not on the present fees, but on those likely to be established. The fullest growth of the University demands both that there be no increase in fees, and that there be no fear of such increase...
...take the courses is required, it cannot be positively said how many men will be here. Men are always assisted in finding rooms by the committee in charge of the Summer School, and the Foxcroft Club is kept open during the summer when it is run on a somewhat higher scale than in winter. The price of room and board will probably run from five to ten dollars a week...