Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boston coming to Harvard. The train which they get at school, especially if they work under Mr. Lathrop, is of immense help to them when they come to run at college. This school training shows itself in two ways when the fellows come to college: first, there is a higher quality of athletics in the entering class and the material can be worked into first class shape in a shorter time; and second, more material is apt to present itself to be worked up. If the boys have run while in school, they will be much more apt to come...
...with high credit. Comparing the present system with that practised not long ago, one is so struck with the improvements made in the requirements that he is rather apt to stop there and not consider whether or no the regulations might be made so as to raise the standard higher. Vastly more significant as the present A. M. degree may be, it is still below what it should be, - a mark of rather extraordinary learning. Today the intelligent student can distribute the four extra courses required for his A. M. degree through his college course, and become a Master...
...supremacy. In this spiritual contest Jesus Christ is, by divine fitness, the leader. The essential qualities for this struggle are courage, obedience and discipline. Physical courage is largely a matter of organization, but the courage to face one's highest ideal, to acknowledge Jesus Christ is of a far higher kind. Emerson once said: "The best way to confess Jesus Christ is to say nothing about Him." I sympathize with Him because there is so much hypocricy and cant, but nevertheless we ought all to come out and gravely place ourselves under our Leader's banner...
...University, College and Library accounts there has been a large increase of income, chiefly from more tuition fees, Walter Hastings Hall and the higher rate of income on funds. The expenditure, however, has been greater, causing a deficit of $714.68, which has been charged to Stock account. The income of the Stock account has been added to its capital to make good in part former deficits. The balance of the unrestricted Sever Fund has been used up in improving the ventilation of Sever Hall. For 1889-90 there was a surplus...
Professor Pierce closes his report with the recommendation that the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts be moderately raised - perhaps to two years of residence and study - in order to give the degree a higher and more valuable significance...