Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...minds of some faculty members who do not try to keep in touch with the members of their classes except in a superficial way. In some classes which are supposed to be for fifth group men alone, it is hard for a man of superior ability to get a higher group than fifth, because the instructor does not investigate sufficiently the different qualifications of his students...
...zoology lecturer held up a small object in his hand. "Gentlemen, this is the brain. With the training of it our whole system of education is concerned, from kindergarten through the higher universities." The brains of his auditors were impressed and a new groove was made on them to record this latest knowledge...
Atlanta University, an institution for the higher education of colored men and women in Atlanta, Ga., now celebrating its semi-centenial, has begun the raising of a half-million-dollar endowment fund. to this we gladly call our readers' attention in the earnest hope that some of them will contribute to this most worthy undertaking, even at a time when the need for help in Europe is so great. Why do we take this position? Because even in the south people are beginning to realize that if the colored people are to direct their footsteps towards efficiency, probity and useful...
...knowledge concerning the finer points of the game, but a Philadelphian--the home of soccer--has thus set down his impressions of the various teams of the Intercollegiate League; Pennsylvania he says, was the most adept, showing a greater knowledge of the game and playing it with a higher degree of skill than any of the other teams...
...tells the following story. One Commencement Day he met an undergraduate whom he asked to pick out their fellow-townsmen on the Honor List. With a laugh of contempt his friend replied: "We don't go in much for that." Professor Webster and a great many critics of American higher education would take this instance as typical of the proverbial Harvard indifference. There is still considerable justification for their opinion. Yet during the last two years Americans, and American students in particular, have undoubtedly tended to face more seriously the intellectual and social problems which they encounter. This sudden Renaissance...