Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been defeating Gettysburg, 13 to 0; Oberlin, 34 to 6; Williams, 46 to 7; and Bucknell, 41 to 0. In the two respective schedules, unfortunately, there have been no games in common from which to draw comparisons, but too much emphasis is not to be laid on Cornell's higher scores, as the teams which have played the Red and White have undoubtedly been inferior to those which have met the Crimson...
Although the price of chemicals and chemical apparatus has risen 25 per cent. on account of the war, the Department of Chemistry has decided to make no raise in the laboratory fees, but students are especially warned that breakage charges will be at least 25 per cent. higher than usual this year. This scarcity of material was realized to a certain degree last year, but this year its full extent is being felt, owing to the exhaustion of reserve supplies in this country...
...element of weakness to Germany herself. They are not essentially different from the spirit of haughty masterfulness that characterized English foreign policies and English insular self-sufficiency throughout the larger part of the nineteenth century; or from the French belief in the superiority of France in all matters of higher civilization; or even from the American assumption that the United States is the foremost standard-bearer of international justice and righteousness. They are an impressive instance of that tragic national self-overestimation which seems to be inseparable from periods of striking national ascendency, both quickening and endangering this ascendency itself...
Most damning, however, is the charge that the "sporting attitude" prevails in regard to college courses. Most students are interested in "passing" examinations, or, if their standard is higher, in winning A's for their value in securing scholarships or elections to Phi Beta Kappa. The degree and other honors overshadow the more important interest in the problems of life. This is a serious charge, and one that is ninety per cent. true. In choosing courses today the undergraduate should remember that he is disposing of opportunities for broadening and deepening his intellect which will not offer themselves in later...
...initiative and ambition to take and pass these tests raises a presumption that he really wants to go to Harvard and that he has the stamina to orient himself in the vigorous atmosphere of a large man's college. And mere numbers should never be a chief end in higher education...