Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...constant participation and faithful performance in which receives academic credit, is not a new idea, and such orchestra-work can be found listed in their catalogues among the regular courses of their Musical Departments. If such a plan were to be adopted in our College, not only would a higher standard be set by the academic supervision in the character of the program, the discipline, and the technical performance of our amateur players, but it would also attract the many undergraduates of no inferior ability who have until now been unable to sacrifice the time necessary for club rehearsals. Surely...
...struggle for a proper valuation of scholarship is a problem of turning the popular opinion of the college, and turning it toward something which the general tone of American life does not favor. The change is a slow one -- we believe that it has been operating with the higher standards of scholarship during the past few years--and is still far from accomplishment. Every move which will influence it should be made; the two suggested are evident and practical...
...manner of expression to take the place of one; and for the development of tentative geniuses, there would still be the limited classes, English 12 and 5. The University in the appointment of Mr. Castle to investigate undergraduate English, has proved its interest in the movement for a higher standard. To allow the mediocre man in English A the best opportunities for bettering himself in succeeding years would seem to be one of the first steps in the movement...
...after all a higher animal, and as an animal, contains certain springs of action. Instruction is then fundamentally the manipulation of the underlying sources. The second nature is never fatal, but merely the result of the action of certain agencies. If exterior influences can create it from the underlying stratum, it is likewise true that it can be unmade and made again by similar agencies. The love of money, with some a second nature, is but the evolution of the principle of first nature that influences man to acquire and amass...
...also in 1913 Harvard men shared in the honors of these competitions. Fifteen essays were submitted in 1912 on "The Appointment of Higher Municipal Officers by the Merit System." The prize was awarded to Arthur Dexter Brigham '12, of Dorchester. In 1913 ten essays were written on "The Best Sources of City Revenue." The first prize was awarded to an undergraduate of Radcliffe College and the second to Edward Augustine Lawlor '15, of Lawrence...