Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following extract from the Columbia Spectator shows that the higher powers in Columbia's athletics favored the admission of Yale to the race, and leaves little room for doubt that the action of the freshmen is as stated in yesterday's papers...
...Faust, we are to go the poet himself, to the poet's life, and the poet's thought, for then we can come at the deeper significance hidden under all the seeming trivialities of the action of the play. "There is," he says, "always something higher at the bottom, and nothing is required but eyes and knowledge of the world and the power of comprehension to perceive the great in the small...
...instruction take a broader course. The department of the University which receives the greater part of this delegation is not the college but the graduate and professional schools. harvard cannot pretend to compete long with the growing western universities in the matter of rudimentary college education. But in the higher departments Harvard has a great start on the new western universities, and as eastern brains and enterprise are as great as western, there is no reason why Harvard should not keep her lead and continue to attract advanced students from the West. This means, however, that increased attention must...
...sermon was an exposition of how hard and persistently people work to attain low ends and to what an extreme they carry worldly lives; and ended with an exhortation to extend those energies in a worthier and higher cause. The story of the unjust steward was cited as a proof of how far worldliness may be carried when resolved to attain its end, and the history of the years of laborious and painstaking work of the Eastern dancing girls was given as an example of how hard people do strive for success in the lower grades of life. Then another...
After recounting the glories of a life of a great apostle as compared with that of a mere worldly man, the discourse was concluded with an appeal to men and women to improve their time and energies. They were asked to strive after the higher aims of life and to spend their few years in this world in something improving and elevating...