Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feats as well as they can be done; the undergraduate scholar, on the contrary, is just beginning to ripen intellectually and does not attain his full mental development until many years after graduation. Hence undergraduates and the public are not interested in puerile performances, which represent only training for higher things, whereas they are intensely interested, in athletic performances that cannot be bettered...
...several representative American universities. While the total sales made at the Harvard store for the past year practically equals the combined sales of the co-operative stores at the Universities of Wisconsin, Yale, Princeton, and California made during the same period, all of the above stores have declared a higher dividend than at the Harvard Co-operative. This may be accounted for in part by the fact that the Co-operative not only declares a dividend on the total purchases of members but also attempts wherever practicable to lessen prices to non-members. On the other hand, while the following...
This report not only points out the very pleasing progress of the past fiscal year, but predicts larger development and higher efficiency in the future. Humble in its beginnings, the Co-operative Society has shown remarkable growth and is now fulfilling adequately the aims of an undertaking of its nature--equal service and benefit...
...highest records of the strength tests taken so far this year are printed below. The highest individual record does not beat the record of 1303.2 made last year by F. D. Huntington '12, but the general average is considerably higher. Eight of the ten men who made records this year are football men. As these tests are merely qualifying ones, and as there is no sincere competition, they do not in many cases represent a man's utmost effort. The average undergraduate makes 630 points...
When the older colleges were established, boys who expected to be the business men of the community rarely gave much thought to "higher education." That was for the "learned professions," most often, in the early days, the ministry. It is only of recent years that men with business careers ahead of them have taken advantage of college opportunities...