Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regardless of the advantages her adversaries might gain by them. As a result Harvard has to elect a substitute to captain her baseball team and her crew is seriously handicapped. But what of that? The victory is Harvard's, whether she win or lose, for she has taken a higher stand and bound herself to a loftier standard which is too genuinely severe in its results to suggest the least artificiality or selfishness...
...given by women during the last thirteen years to colleges for men only, for women only, and for men and women together. In spite of the fact that in 1880, with which year the report begins, Vassar College was already fifteen years old, and that the desirableness of the higher education for women was therefore already patent, it appears that during this time women have given five times as much for the education of men alone as for the education of women alone, and they have given nearly twice as much for men's colleges as for women's colleges...
...results of Extension teaching in England. He said that the average citizen, who has to pursue his education collaterally with the work of life, is ready and ripe for instruction in the higher branches of learning, and that the work done by them in the Extension classes and the examinations undergone by them would, in the case of some of the students, compare favorably even with the most advanced instruction in England, such for example as the Indian Civil Service open competitive examination...
Many people have a mistaken impression that the so-called higher criticism has injured the integrity of the Bible. Higher criticism is simply a study of the frame in which the word of God is presented to us, and it cannot affect in the slightest degree, the picture within the frame. This distinction is sharply drawn in the higher criticism, but unfortunately there is a difference between higher criticism and higher critics. If the Bible has suffered from its critics, it has been from those who have transcended the bounds of higher criticism and who have disregarded its very first...
...Harvard University shall simply countersign the diplomas which are to be given by Radcliffe College. The spirit which leads men of such eminence, many of them not Harvard graduates, to take such an interest in this matter, is most significant and most encouraging for the cause of the higher education of women. No one will deny this. To the petition itself there will be no objection. It is pretty safe to say, however, that a majority of those who favor the new relation of Harvard and the Annex agree with the main point of the petition, the request that students...