Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...progress in the three schools above mentioned has another significance. It will be noticed that the greatest advance has been made in two of the great professions and also in the matter of science. No men in our day require, or should require a higher standard of proficiency than lawyers and especially physicians, and every move to make the law and medicine open only to the best men is an important step in advance. Moreover, the business of the law and of medicine and of scientific research is largely with the present and the future, and it is gratifying...
...done in all enterprises. It matters little what a man has to do in this world, so long as he does his best. There is no reason why a man in the humblest station in life should be at all inferior to one whose work is in a higher social scale. All things are holy when a true heart and a true hand take hold of them; above all things the will of God must be in everything...
...holder. Parliament has the power to deprive a man of his property and there is no appeal; but in America such is not the case, since, if ever property be taken in consideration of the public good, the owner is fully recompensed. The American constitution developes lawyers of a higher standard because it enables them to take advantage of any defect which they may find in the law, a privilege which is denied the British barrister...
...said that all the greatest and best things on the earth, the great cathedrals, which are the highest type of architecture, the Bible, which is the highest form of literature, have all come into being, directly or indirectly, through prayer. Everyone feels the need of looking up to some higher being, and this want is satisfied by means of prayer...
...exists today, and makes the courses so attractive that young women of an age which very often finds them interested in nothing but society, are glad to give up part of this for science and literature and art. Not many years ago the young woman who went into "higher education" was inseparably associated, at least in the minds of young men, with bowed spectacles and philosophy and was fought shy of as being "intellectual" and so uninteresting. Today a young woman may be as intellectual as she likes and still be decidedly interesting. Thus the Annex has offered the best...