Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee of the faculty at Princeton, which for over a year has been considering the subject of Higher Degrees, has at last decided upon a system which, it is expected, will develop a body of graduate students some studying for the Master's and others for the Doctor's degree...
...Fearing '93 won the running high jump, with the bar at 5 ft. 8 1-4 in. It is curious to note that E. B. Bloss '94 and C. D. Hey-wood M. I. T. were tied for second, and in the jump off each cleared an inch higher than the winner. Heywood won the toss and Bloss took third...
...somewhat more enlivening, its foundations, it should be remembered, lie in gymnasium work. The strength that men acquire at gymnastics mert and all the better able to stand the tests of out-door contests. In gymnastics, as in all other kinds of sport, the greater the interest shown the higher will be the grade of the sport; the greater the attention paid to the winter meetings of the Athletic Association, the better and more exciting will be the contests, and the higher the grade in the end of outdoor athletics. With the prospects of brilliant meetings, then, the interest shown...
...true uplifting and emancipation of our life comes through the recognition of the higher ties and relationships which bind us. I mean that the progress and elevation of the soul is a progress of discovery, not that it is independent and masterless, but that the lower laws and conditions under which it lives are subordinate to higher laws, and that its bondage in a certain sphere becomes transformed into liberty when it is lifted up into a higher sphere where he that seweth and that is sewed are subject unto Him who is sovereign over both...
Although the suggestions which the New England Association of Colleges has passed relating to changes in the grammar school course are recommended chiefly for pupils not intending to pursue any higher course of education their ratification by the Harvard Faculty shows them to have some bearing on the question of collegiate education. At the Convention of the Association held in Cambridge last fall, President Eliot was an enthusiastic promoter of most of changes which the Association finally voted to suggest. The general sentiment of the convention was that a great deal of time was wasted in the grammar schools over...