Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Glee Club won the intercollegiate glee club contest in Carnegie Hall, New York City, last Saturday evening, and Princeton was given honorable mention. The standard of singing of all the clubs was much higher than last year, and the decision was close...
Eighty-seven degrees have just been voted by the Corporation and confirmed by the Board of Overseers. The list includes Seniors graduating at mid-years, and the remainder are those who have been awarded degrees "as of the Class of --", or degrees of higher academic distinction than the A.B. or S.B. Last year 101 degrees were conferred, 15 of which went to Seniors graduating at mid-years. Twenty-five degrees were awarded to students "out of course," one of which is officially recorded as of the Class of 1906. This degree is awarded cum laude...
...University of California: "When it comes to choosing officers for the reserves, we Americans cannot base our choice as Europe does, on social caste or the possession of goods. We must turn to the colleges. Natural leadership of some sort there must be, and that leadership the higher education will provide...
...private pride must yield to higher national ends, so must national pride. I utterly reject as mumbo-jumbo any conception of American honor as a mysterious something distinct from the aggregate honor of American citizens. National traditions, ideals and honor live in the minds of people and nowhere else. Now, as members of the American partnership, we feel sorely humiliated by the Germans. Somehow we feel less moved by the greater indignities practiced by American partners on each other. It is so much easier to hate the foreigner. But if we are to steer with open eyes toward the goal...
...music as a whole is charming, with no one particular success, and the scenery is entirely satisfying in the ultramodern way. The production lacks only drive and pruning to put it on the higher levels of musical tid-bits. No small measure of its success is due to a small, good-looking chorus which can really sing...