Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Huntington said: The finest scholars, after taking a few steps in the course of their researches, always find themselves confronted by an impassible wall. They reach the end of human knowledge and feel the littleness of it. In such cases it is necessary to look higher, to have faith in the infinite wisdom...
...prizes which have been offered during the past year are described. One of the most noticeable features of the book is the department of the Scientific School, the growth of which is remarkable. The Graduate School also shows a great increase in members. The grounds for the various higher degrees are fully explained. The The publication of the names of the members of the Faculty Committees is a matter of no small interest to undergraduates...
...President and Fellows with the sanction of the Overseers, and the scheme of registration is merely a Faculty regulation to carry out the provisions of this statute; the Faculty therefore felt that they had no right to grant a petition which would make the statute of the higher body inoperative. It seemed, moreover, as we have been told, that Harvard being a University, it would be a slur on the earnest spirit of the students if extra days were added to a recess merely because there are very few recitations to attend to. This latter argument seems somewhat weak. Saturday...
...these is $500 a year. Formerly the custom of the college was to award the fellowships by competitive examination; hereafter they will be awarded by the President, at the advice of the University Council, "to those applicants who give evidence of special fitness to pursue courses of higher study and original investigation." All graduates of any college or scientific school are available candidates. The term of office will be one year, but the incumbents, upon recommendation of their professors, and a statement that they wish to continue their studies, may be repainted for two terms of a year each...
...less discussion took place yesterday as to whom the petition to lengthen the Christmas recess ought to be sent. A rumor had it that the Faculty had no power to act in the matter but that in order to be effective the petition should be sent to some other higher body. If the petition which so many have signed expressed a wish that the University statute be changed then it would have to be presented to the President and Fellows, who constitute the legislative board; but not even their approval would be final for nothing so important...