Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wealthy was false. I cheerfully wave aside the natural feelings of personal reserve to say that Harvard is a place where the poorest can go, where those of the least wealth can go and find a paradise of inspiration and blessing, and find their very souls mounting to higher planes and better things. Who that has walked in the shades of her classic groves can ever still the love that beats in his heart for old Harvard, or ever wants...
...most striking movement of recent years in higher education has been the growth of special scientific training for business; and in this field the University's Graduate School of Business Administration is now exerting probably the most powerful influence. The first business school in the United States was the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which, however, was not restricted to graduates. Dartmouth followed in 1904 with the Tuck School, which provides a two-year graduate course. It was only eight years ago that the Harvard School was established, requiring a bachelor's degree for admission and giving...
...Harvard the change should rather be in the direction of higher requirements for the master's degree. An A.M. is easier to obtain in the University than in some graduate schools of less reputation. Four courses, each passed with a grade of B, are sufficient; no research work of thesis, unless incidental to a particular course, is required. And the Faculty are also somewhat freer with B minuses to graduates than to the undergraduates who can pass with C's. It would be a salutary reform which would make the A.M. degree worthy of the prestige it enjoys professionally...
...Tsing Hua College in Peking. In 1908, the United States of America proposed to return to China $10,785,286,10 out of the $24,440,778.81 Boxers Indemnity. The Chinese Government wisely decided to use this sum of money in sending students to America to receive a higher education. A preparatory school, the Tsing Hua College, was established, in Peking from which already 300 students have been sent to this country. There are yet 50 to come to this country each year from this college for 26 years...
...Yale committee doubtless feels a natural hesitancy in taking such a step, for fear of putting Yale in a false light with other institutions. But there is possible a point of view even higher than that, which would consider the case in the light of pure justice, justice not of the letter but of spirit. The University does not presume to offer advice to Yale; but, since the matter is not yet settled, it may be worth while to set forth the attitude of Harvard...