Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact is that Harvard, as President Lowell pointed out at a meeting of graduate students last year, owes something to the educational systems of all the leading nations. The College, although it has followed its own evolution, is English in origin; the Graduate Schools, especially in their ideals of higher scholarship and their methods of research, draw mainly from Germany; while the Engineering School is modelled on that of Paris. The Law School alone has developed a completely American method...
...second application, also open only to Seniors, will close on May 29. Any number of tickets may be secured, but the prices will be a little higher...
...will bring them together competitively on June 1. What the Meet has already begun to do for singing among colleges, the Jubilee may be expected to accomplish for singing at Harvard. Such competitions have a two-fold benefit: They educate the listener; and they stimulate the competitor to a higher standard of endeavor. At least those who have participated will come forth with a finer appreciation for good choral music well rendered. And of the listeners, even the singularly unappreciative can hardly fail to realize that they have heard something better than the type of melody usually associated with Varsity...
...breadth of culture as the best basis for concentration. But if Mr. Burke's hypothetical undergraduate, with his atrophied power of choice, necessitates nothing less than a complete retraction of elective ideals, rather than the retention of their best elements in a synthetic reform, the whole problem of American higher education will best be solved by the frank adoption of the Montessori System...
...many instances, however, assistants --although men of scholarly promise--are appointed rather for their high records than for their ability to instruct. The tendency is to treat assistantships merely as graduate scholarships, given to aid men who are doing research work for higher degrees; and the professor is more concerned with the progress of that research work than with the teaching which the assistant does...