Word: higher
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most obvious uses, he said, which higher education affords man, are solace during idle hours and a keener perception of opportunities in business...
...must be right, and that there is danger in change and innovation. They love equality in one sense and inequality in another. An individual likes to think that he is equal to the next man, but is strongly appealed to by the unusual, by what is pre-eminent or higher than its surroundings. This accounts for many paradoxes in modern life...
...proposed structure will occupy substantially the side of the present East Cambridge or Craigie bridge, which will be removed. The dam will be sufficiently high to exclude all salt water and to maintain in the basin above, a water level approximately 8 feet higher than mean low water. On top of the dam there will be a roadway to replace the Craigie bride, and a parkway of about 7 acres...
These periods of the soul--the periods of fact, knowledge and faith--are bound, together by duty, a motive higher than pleasure, convenience or ambition; a motive which exacts only sacrifice...
Moral standards, Mr. Fisher said, are among the higher classes almost on a par with those of any Western nation. The mass of people, however, are largely lacking in moral control. Hence the significance of the common soldiers' contact with the Christian Associations. The destruction of feudalism took away with other restraints moral restraint on the masses of people. Japan is thus in as moral as well as political crisis. Its result will depend largely on the West, to which Japan is looking for leadership. In conclusion, the speaker called attention to the opportunity for influencing the destiny of Japan...