Word: higher
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Clement, editor of the "Boston Transcript", on "Ethics of Journalism", Thursday, May 18, Col. T. W. Higginson '41, on "Ethics of Literature"; Thursday, May 25, Dr. C. H. Henderson, of Philadelphia, head-master of the Marienfeld Summer School, and author of "Education and the Higher Life," on "Ethics of Teaching"; Saturday, May 27, Mr. L. D. Brandels L.77, a prominent lawyer of the Massachusetts bar, on "Ethics of the Legal Profession...
...United States is 16.3 per cent, of the total population. Professor Willcox, however, after a careful calculation of possible errors, places the death rate at 19.56 per cent, of the population. It is interesting to observe that the death rate of negroes is in some states 60 per cent, higher than that of whites. From 1890 to 1900 there has been a marked decrease in the death rate throughout the country. The birth rate in the United States is lower than that in Europe and during the past century it has steadily decreased...
...restriction by many limitations. When a few weeks ago the Harvard Faculty instituted a new degree--an A.B. with distinction--which requires that a student shall pursue his courses in a single department under the supervision of the Faculty, they stamped work done under special direction as of higher value than unrestricted study. What more eloquent testimony than this illustrates the tendency away from the free elective system? Underlying the theory of this system is the idea of individual development. The student is to cultivate only his peculiar aptitudes. College, however, is not principally intended to prepare a student...
...following candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1905, having attained a grade of A or B in at least nine courses or their equivalent, and having attained also a grade of C or higher in as many courses as they are required to pursue for admission, without deficiency, to the Senior class, are provisionally entitled to degrees with distinction and to Commencement Parts...
...part of the expense. It may be suggested that the Stadium was built by the present classes, and the expense should be stood by them. This is rather a mean argument, and if used, the answer is that the students did not decide to build the Stadium, but those higher in authority...