Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Hitherto, American Rhodes scholars were not a great success at Oxford. They failed to mix with the English, and seldom won the higher honors in scholarship...
...Belmont course at 3 o'clock this afternoon the University harriers will meet the Cornell team that placed one position higher than they at Syracuse a week ago. Today's race differs from that of last Saturday in that the course, although longer, is less tiring; that all of one team and the best runners of the other will have raced on the course before, and that each side will be strengthened by the return of runners who were out of the race last week because of injuries...
...Over 16,000 attended the different branches of the American University in France," he said. "At Beaune, where the instruction was given by American college men in the army, there were seven thousand men; in the French universities, where higher education was afforded, there were also seven thousand; finally in the English universities two thousand more were provided...
...information and statistics concerning, the undergraduates and University activities, including memberships of clubs, bringing the candidates into contact with men prominent in various activities. No experience is necessary, as the work is not of a difficult nature. Men who make the board this year will be eligible for the higher positions on the Register next year...
...Carver also says, a little higher, "The only way to combat the direct reactionist (sic) is to demonstrate to him that there is more force on the side of law" etc. Meaning, one demonstrates that one is right by having over-bearing physical force on one's side. Right, naturally, is on the side of the bigger club, just as in the good old days of the cave men. Are we to have cave-man morality or the principles of peace? Mr. Carver wants both...