Word: higher
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Athletic Committee on February 17, the proposition to engage Mr. Reid as football coach for next year came up for discussion. The Committee felt that although they were desirous of obtaining Mr. Reid's services they were not willing to pay a coach a salary higher than that received by a professor in the University. It was accordingly voted to offer him $3,500. However, as this sum would not defray the extraordinary expenses necessarily incurred by him, the Committee decided that if the graduates should choose to make good his losses they would not oppose such...
...contribution to a working alliance with the Institute would be by no means limited to the McKay money, and the general prestige of the University, is plainly indicated by several facts to which the President draws attention: First, that the requirements for admission to the Lawrence Scientific School are higher than those of any other technical school in the country, being now on a par with the requirements for admission to Harvard College; second, the high standard of the several professional courses in the Scientific School, such as mining engineering, electrical engineering, architecture, etc., as distinguished from the course...
...useful element in the training of young men for such high service. The essential thing for university youth to learn is the difference between practising generously a liberal art and driving a trade or winning a fight, no matter how. Civilization has long been in possession of much higher ethics than those of war, and experience has abundantly proved that the highest efficiency for service and the finest sort of courage in individual men may be accompanied by, and indeed spring from, unvarying generosity, gentle manliness, and good will...
...first session, on Thursday, a report of the executive committee was read. At the second session, yesterday, a paper was presented by Professor Henry Marion Howe of Columbia on "The Organization of Higher Technical Education." At the third session, also yesterday, President G. Stanley Hall of Clark University, and Professor Albion W. Small of the University of Chicago presented papers on "Co-instruction in Graduate School." The fourth and last session, today, will be devoted to the discussion of the opportunities for higher instruction and research in state universities. Papers on this subject will be presented on behalf...
Since October 10, when an article was published in the CRIMSON on the progress of Emerson Hall, work on the building has advanced rapidly. The outside walls have been raised to the bases of the windows of the first story, and in some places several feet higher. The large entrance, designed to correspond with that of Robinson Hall. is beginning to take form. Flanking the doors there will be pillars two stories high, the shafts of brick, and the capitals of white limestone. to correspond with the trimmings of the rest of the building...