Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first two places, in the hammer-throw, although Coolidge, of California has done better than 150 feet on two different occasions. Olmsted, of Columbia is another man who can do 150 feet, while McCutcheon, of Cornell has made 149 feet. H. Sturgis '15, may secure fifth place, but a higher position is improbable...
...present form he should register 5 points. Nevertheless, Cornell has two good men in Fritz and Milton, who defeated Camp in the dual games and who may force Camp to take second or even third. Sewell, of Pennsylvania, and Carter, of Yale are two others who have gone higher than 12 feet although the latter is irregular in his work. These men should take fourth and fifth places respectively...
...each college works out its own method of solving its own problems. Even if they were all dealing with the matter as Harvard did, the notable point would be that they have all come in turn to a common recognition--that the college, with the constant purpose of providing "higher education," must achieve this purpose by methods adapted to changing needs...
...England Association of School Superintendents recently met in Boston and discussed a report upon the relations of the secondary schools and the higher institutions of learning. The changes in admission requirements do not seem to have gone nearly far enough to satisfy the superintendents. "That the needed change has been so long in coming," says the report, "is largely the fault of the public school men, who have been content to accept the proposition that the college has an inherent right to direct the high school course." Many radical departures from even the newest plans of entrance requirements are proposed...
...universities, whether of an athletic or an intellectual kind, is most broadening to the men and beneficial to the Universities. It is possible that this meeting may be the first step away from the present over-emphasis on athletic intercourse and a step toward a more valuable and a higher kind of connection, based on similar tastes of a mental rather than a physical nature...