Word: higher
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...make the situation interesting, but also are such as should afford college men peculiar satisfaction in studying and combating them. They do not exist here alone but prevail, to a greater or less degree, throughout the whole country, and they will continue to do so until men actuated by higher motives and acting from a sense of civic duty will take at least sufficient interest in politics to insure the election of honest and able men to public office. It is the college-trained men who are best qualified to start such a movement in the communities in which they...
...Hall in the University is a peculiar one--one which is regulated largely by economic conditions. At present the membership of the Hall is less by several hundred than its actual capacity would permit, and the price of board for those who exercise little restraint over their choice is higher than seems warranted. This high price deters many men from eating at the Hall, because they do not realize that the high price would be reduced if they joined, not as individuals--for one more or less would make little difference--but if all the men who are in doubt...
There are several causes which tend to increase the cost of board. The higher prices of staples which affect even the reduced contract prices which the H. D. A. enjoys is a material factor. The reduced number of men among whom the cost of the improvements is divided also appears in the balance sheet. Furthermore, there is a great variety of meats and desserts which leads to waste even although the help are served with a greater variety than is necessary. Lastly, the average cost of board is increased by men who are willing to obtain at any price...
...class, men who, by fortunate environment, have experience of the best music as listeners and performers, realize that they have an invaluable resource and a quickened sense of beauty; that if such opportunity could be extended, in some degree, to the average college man, he would also gain a higher appreciation of the dignity of the art, and a considerable addition to the sum of his cultivation...
Henry Sylvester Nash '78, "Professor of New Testament literature and interpretation in the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, historian of the Higher Criticism of the New Testament, a leading scholar in the American branch of the Anglican Church, who treads the path that leads towards truth...