Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lowering of courts and judicial procedure in the public estimation. It has been noticeable of late years that leading lawyers are not much in court-rooms. They work in private chambers for rich men and rich corporations, drawing legal papers for promoters, industrial adventurers and bankers. In this service higher fees can be charged than in service before the courts. It is commonly the junior members of large legal firms who argue cases in court. The passing of the judge, the disappearance of the great court-room advocates, the popular distrust of courts, and the disposition of rich business...
Much of the prevalent criticism of American Universities is based on the assertion that the greatest defect of the higher educational system is that it is not in sympathy with the needs of the community at large and does not cooperate heartily in the solution of social problems. That such criticism is unjust to a very large extent can be shown merely by referring to the contributions made by American universities to the advancement of the welfare of the people. In the field of government, to use Harvard as an example, the fruits of co-operation between theorists and administrators...
...existing institutions of law and of our methods of judicial procedure, President Eliot has presented in succinct and forcible terms, and he emphasizes particularly that public opinion is demanding reform. Here, certainly is another field in which Harvard University through the Law School may show that the higher educational institutions of the land have their thumb on the public opinion and are able and ready to prescribe remedies for social skills. As the current number of the Alumni Bulletin suggests: "Certainly the Law School as a constituent part of the University could make no greater contribution to the good fame...
...absurd, ridiculous. I challenge any advocate of these schemes to name one nation with the remotest intention of attacking us. As the risks of war decrease, we are asked to pay higher and yet higher rates of insurance. In the fiscal year 1910-11 we paid for the support of our army and navy over 43.3 percent, of our total expenditures, and 24.1 per cent, more for pensions, the burden of past wars--a total of over 440 million dollars--enough to build two hundred Widener libraries. The only possible way to stop this mad race of nations apparently trying...
...entire student body. As an organized sport it is far ahead of the other minor sports in its strenuousness, requirements of skill and endurance, and popularity. Standing out above the other minor sports and possessing all the requisites of a major sports, it deserves recognition of a higher order. Whether this recognition should be given is for the undergraduates to decide; and communications to the CRIMSON, and the Forum this evening offer the opportunities for expressing their judgment...