Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual report on the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Professor Trowbridge speaks of the preparatory school training in physics. The methods of laboratory instruction are being gradually introduced, but, owing to the knowledge of trigonometry which is required, there is a difficulty in the way of preparing students for the higher course in laboratory work. The teaching of elementary mathematics has not hitherto kept pace with the adoption of rational methods of teaching physics; and few preparatory schools offer any course as advanced as trigonometry...
Scotland has always been a home of literature, Mr. Black said, the names of Scott, Burns, and Carlyle being written on the pages of its history. The literature of Scotland has seldom been higher than it is at the present...
...here we are in our present times with innumerable styles of architecture, none of them representative. Either we must throw aside the glorious example of past ages and set ourselves up as prophets of a higher civilization, or we must do our best to make our architecture characteristic of our times. The latter method is justified by a long list of successes, and it is certainly best for us to follow it; but in order to know what style we should follow we must know our historical position, for style in its growth has been governed by universal development...
...broadest sense all who are saints in Christ. The phrase, "Communion of Saints," also should be taken in its broadest meaning. It does not refer to monks and anchorites alone, but to all who now or at any time since the creation of man have lived up to the higher thought within them. All men are saints who carry lofty purposes into the business of every-day life. There can be no perplexity in regard to the redemption of the heathen or of mankind's living before the coming of Christ. Christ has been a saving power since the creation...
...labor of this kind abroad. There is a growing interest today among college men in the great questions which are agitating society. The college settlements and institutions like the Prospect Union are nothing else than one phase of missionary work, though they are not called missions. The lower and higher classes of society are being brought closer than ever together by the present hard times, and the rich and the educated are beginning to see that they are in a way responsible for the poor and the ignorant. If there is to be a dearth, therefore, of helpers...