Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps the "gentlemen higher up" find this a sufficient justification for the custom...
...football rules committee has this year drawn up as a preface to the new book a "Football Code," in which higher standards of play are discussed. The committee is trying to bring a spirit of sportsmanship and fair play into the game by interpreting plays from the honest rather than the "anything to win" viewpoint...
There have been Harvard men who, because of natural affiliations, have given their lives in the great war. The names of Byng, Maxwell, Champollion and Starr are enrolled on higher Lists of Honor than those that gave the Croix de Guerre or the Victoria Cross...
...service in the business world, and in the realm of collegiate thought throughout the country, approximates the specialist to some extent, without cramping his abilities by a narrowing of his field of vision. He is bent on accomplishing the great and far-sighted thing. He would have men of higher education less trained for selfish and individualistic successes, than for their collective influence for good in the business community...
...sincerely hope that Dr. Hopkins may meet with success and co-operation in the attainment of this higher ideal, and that his term of office may be both fruitful and enjoyable...