Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...early to make any definite prophecies as to the speed of the University boat. If, however, everything develops smoothly there is every reason to hope that the standard of rowing will be as high, if not higher, than that of recent years...
Every friend to higher education will be glad of the opportunity that will be afforded Governor Wilson to take a stand in defense of the legitimate colleges of the country in his attitude toward the Gallinger Bill (Senate No. 8378) which will come up for action shortly after the inauguration. The purpose of the bill is, briefly, to stop and prevent "faking" in the matter of colleges and college degrees. The bill has special application to the so-called "colleges" of the District of Columbia but is applicable to a much wider range. It seems peculiarly fitting that Dr. Wilson...
...purpose for which they were given for too long have apparently valuable degrees been awarded with no basis in scholarly achievement. The proposed action is not only a naive admission of the extent to which we are systematising, and bringing under the modern commercial and practical standards of efficiency, higher education, but it is also a witness to the increasingly intimate relation between the colleges of the land and public life...
...general, while work done in preparatory school will be a factor in determining the candidate's qualifications for admission. That two of the great colleges in the country have widened their requirements and made them applicable to all preparatory schools is a much desired change in the relations of higher to secondary education, and means that the higher institutions of learning are striving to be national...
...limit of height (certainly not higher than any building existing on Harvard Square), in and about the Square...