Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...article was published not long ago in the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette on Harvard graduates the purpose of which was to show what became of the graduates on leaving college. As soon as the man is graduated and enters upon the duties of the world he finds himself no higher than the rest of mankind. He has a fair knowledge of the languages, is not unacquainted with philosophy and political economy, but for practical affairs of business or professional life he finds himself quite in the same position as the man without college training. If he devotes himself...
...Allen, superintendent of the Boston Episcopal City Mission, have again requested that the students continue their help. The meetings are very similar to the Globe theatre services of two years ago, and the managers should have the hearty support of the college in their endeavor to present a higher life to the masses. It seems best not to attempt to have the chorus during the mid-years, but it is hoped that a large number of singers from the college will be there next Sunday...
...forget that the directors could not help all this; and that Mr. Waterman, as business men and business methods go, is not open to severe censure. Perhaps those clerks would have gone to Mr. Waterman's even it the directors had cut loose from Mr. Waterman entirely and offered higher wages all around. We outsiders do not know...
That we take great pride in his success as a student both at Exeter and Harvard, and in the even greater merits which he showed when called to a higher position...