Word: higher
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Survey, but the City Government refused to consider the matter on the ground of expense. At present, the Cambridge Park Commission is heartily in favor of the scheme, not only as a beautifying improvement to the city, but as a source of increased income which would result from the higher taxes along the boulevard...
...oldest of Harvard's musical clubs--give an insight, the more pleasing because it is so rare, into the customs and the life and the spirit of the older Harvard. In "Academic Leisure" a plea is made for a real leisure in the life of our higher institutions of learning, and an active opposition by these institutions of "worship of energy and the frantic eagerness for action" in favor of "an atmosphere of calm reflection...
...races this fall have been an unqualified success and have greatly encouraged the rowing authorities to make them hereafter a more important feature in the rowing system. Twenty crews have completed, as opposed to fifteen last year, and the work has been of a much higher order. Owing to the number of last year's crews which did not appear this fall, the original plan to have last year's finishing order become this year's starting order was found impracticable, and Captain Bacon was obliged to re-arrange the crews. The division into three groups, according to merit...
This is a world of startling possibilities in which nature ever meets us with wondrous surprises. Again and again fertile minds startle us with inventions which would have seemed supernatural to the past generation. Is it too much to suppose that in the higher realms of a world where "truth is stranger than fiction" we may not discover the great truth of Immortality? Hope cannot live without immortality, and life cannot go on without hope...
...winning by the score of 12 to 0 and, therefore, this game should afford a good opportunity for judging the relative strength of Harvard and Yale this year. In the game with Springfield Yale used the forward pass with a fair measure of success, but failed to make a higher score on account of costly fumbles. At times the Springfield backs made consistent gains through the Yale line, and for that reason it is expected that the game this afternoon will be harder than any the University eleven has played so far this season. Six of the men who played...