Word: higher
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that it is to be in no way a local magazine but must represent fairly each of the colleges in the Federation. This magazine is to be the official publication of the Federation, and its contents will be in the nature of articles on graduate study, graduate events and higher education in general...
...four mile race, is obvious. If the race is to end at the three miles, the final desperate spurt will begin near two and a half miles, and it is this last spurt that takes it out of a crew. Besides this, a three mile crew will row a higher stroke all the way, at least two points higher, than the same crew for four miles, and a higher stroke uses a man up relatively much faster. A man who has rowed two and a half miles at thirty-five or thirty-six is not in very much better shape...
...controversy, and he was quick to recognize the tenability of theories with which he could not at the moment agree. He was earnest and zealous in his work as a teacher, and became deeply interested in the promotion of improved methods of teaching the Classics, in the development of higher instruction in the University, and in the advancement of productive scholarship. His learning was varied and profound; his mind was vigorous and characterized by an uncommon quickness and agility; his intellectual curiosity was insatiable. Both through his books and in personal intercourse with teachers and students he strove to inculcate...
...have bought their tickets from speculators seated in good seats, while the officers of instruction and administrators of their Alma Mater, the men who make Harvard an institution worth going to and worthy cheering for are hidden away in remote corners. The present arrangement is not true to higher principles, is humiliating to Harvard, and at variance with collegiate sport. Unless we adhere to these principles, I admit that the athletic contests are not collegiate contests at all, but professional games carried on by a society of students for materialistic ends. I have no doubt that the great body...
Furthermore, once this course was established and students had received the benefits from it, they would doubtless desire to take up higher courses of the same nature, so that they could inter-come the difficulties and perfect themselves in the language. In French and German they have such courses, which enable them to write and speak those languages in the most satisfactory manner; hence Spanish students, who find a speaking knowledge of the language of as much, if not of more value than French, should enjoy the same privileges as those in the French Department. A. A. CAPOTOSTO...