Word: higher
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...negro must learn to honor manual labor, for this is merely the foundation of higher civilization. Crime is committed only by vagrants and by the ignorant. In order to better conditions in the South and to diminish racial feeling, the leaders of the blacks must gain self-control and must not become embittered, for such men lose a large percentage of their power to accomplish good. It is not by racial hatred that the great problem which confronts us today is to be solved, it is by co-operation between the two races...
...training table board is often as high as $14. The average amount contributed towards this by the individual is about $5, so that the net cost to the management is often $9. It seems that after allowance has been made for the better quality of food and the higher rate due to the small number of boarders, the cost is much above what it should...
...find that a certain instinct of the laws of possession pervades and governs the actions of animals of the higher types. By their mating, all animals tend to monogamy, which is reached to the highest degree in foxes and geese...
...life to others, whereby living is made happier for them; and culture is duty of life to oneself, whereby life is made happier for the individual. Professor Kennelly then enlarged upon these points laid down and reached the conclusion that ordinarily vocational training should come last and the higher and final training, the broader and deeper, should be its foundations. But this should not prevent the pupil who has been trained at a vocational school from going to college, for it is not so much the kind of work we do but rather the satisfactory accomplishment of it that...
...Essays on Higher Education," by G. T. Ladd...