Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dean of the College which is published with the annual report of the President contains several tables of interesting statistics, among them two accounting for the losses and gains by classes during the last year. The second of these tables shows that the number of men who entered a higher class was larger than the number of those who were dropped and entered a lower class. This is significant as another fact proving how much the earnest and scholarly spirit predominates in the work done here. Last year the Dean pointed with pride in his report to the fact that...
...this dim light for four to six hours, six days in the week. More and more the library is becoming the work-shop of the University. Imagine for a moment the men working in the chemical and physical laboratories behind ground glass set in windows, obscured outside by higher buildings and inside by partitions...
...will have charge of the course in Plane Trigonometry. This is designed more especially for persons who intend taking up courses in Engineering or Physics or other branches of Applied Mathematics but it will be full enough to enable one to continue the study of Pure Mathematics in its higher branches...
...land. - (b) Changes from wood to iron; sail to steam; and changes in machinery are the real causes of this decline. - (c) The civil war enabled Gt. Britain to get a long start over the United States at a critical time. - (d) Wages on Am. ships are higher. - (e) Lack of proper mail subsidies granted by our government...
...College Education and the Opportunities and Obligations Resulting from it." President Gates of Amherst came next with "College Men as Leaders" for his theme. Then President Raymond of Wesleyan spoke of "The Philosophy of Method," and President Andrews of Brown University on "The Moral and Religious Value of Higher Education." President Eliot, as has been stated before, was unable to be present. A letter was read from the Rev. Frederick A. Farley, class of '18, (who, at the age of ninety-one years, is Harvard's senior alumnus,) in which the writer expressed his deep regret that his health prevented...