Word: higher
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...called to a Football Rules Committee meeting, described the composition, functions, and powers of the athletic committee. The rule debarring Freshmen from University teams, said Captain Foster, was made to prohibit as far as possible the custom of proselyting. This rule also makes class numerals and teams of much higher worth and quality than heretofore. Participation in athletics demands the keeping of good hours, and for this reason alone men should try for at least one team during their College life...
Upon the recommendation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the President and Follows and the Board of Overseers last spring voted concurrently upon a new plan for the administration of the degree of Bachelor of Science and higher degrees in Applied Science, and for the better organization of the Scientific School. Under the provision of the new system a degree of Bachelor of Science is now established in Harvard College, the requirements for admission of students intending to become candidates for this degree being the same as the present requirements for admission to the Lawrence Scientific School...
...become candidates for the new degree on elective courses, or the degree of A.B., are at liberty to do so now on complying with the entrance requirements for candidacy for either of these degrees. Such students may enter the Graduate School of Applied Science as candidates for the higher degrees in Applied Science after receiving the degree of A.B. or of S.B. from Harvard College...
Friedrich Althoff, "Absent through illness, but expressly represented today by Professor Struve, director of the Prussian universities; modest, austere, untiring, sagacious, resolute, the most potent personage in German higher education; the promoter of the exchange of professors between German and American universities...
...race was very closely contested throughout and the lead alternated between the two crews, although the Harvard Freshmen maintained the higher stroke throughout the race. The Harvard Freshmen made a very creditable showing, and rowed well as a whole. The Yale crew finished fresher and seemed to put the greater amount of life into its rowing toward the end of the race...