Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trustees of Columbia College have decided to establish a school of philosophy as a step to wards the establishment of a higher university education. It is also intended to found a new chair of history...
...Divinity School last evening upon the "Ancient Scandinavian Belief in a Future Life." The speaker said that the common Viking belief was that the dead were to remain forever in their graves, or at best would inhabit a gloomy hall of death beneath the earth. Many of the higher families, on the other hand, believed that in the fifth of the heavenly regions was a grand palace called Walhalla, so lofty that one could scarcely see the top, with five hundred and forty doors, and with walls hung about with shields and skins, with rafters covered with spears and swords...
...common belief sent all souls to Hel. This was a gloomy land, vast and pathless, in one part of which was the hall of the reigning goddess. A wall and river which surrounded this seem to be almost identically the same as those which the higher families believed were about Walhalla. Much dispute has arisen as to the unity and consistency of the beliefs in Walhalla and Hel. Some of the Eddic songs speak of Hel and Walhalla separately. while others do not mention the latter at all. The beliefs are inconsistent, because by one all souls are sent...
...vassers for the Delphi Fund that reports are due on April 28. Only a few days remand to finish work. The preliminary reports were encouraging, but there ought to be sufficient interest at Harvard in a scheme of such great importance to carry the contributions to a much higher sum than was then reached. Every man ought to have an opportunity to contribute his share, not only as a help to the cause of art and education, but in support of a college enterprise. Until the canvassers have completed their rounds, some winning contributors may be omitted from the lists...
...school is planned especially to meet the wants of teachers and others who must cover much ground in a short time. The work is equivalent to that done in Natural History 3 and may be taken by students who wish to gain entrance to higher courses in botany given in the college...