Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from the colleges of New England, now that they have once more opened their doors, is the usual one of increasing prosperity. It is much too early, of course, to obtain definite registration figures, but it may be said that, with two notable exceptions, all of our institutions of higher learning have made gains in enrolment. Harvard's Freshman class is larger and more representative than ever before. The University's attempt to attract to its halls men from the West and from the public high schools in general is surely proving successful. Yale expects about two hundred more students...
...more solid and more serious nature. But this is in fact by wish of a practically unanimous majority, and indeed a player can hardly spend a half-year in becoming acquainted with the individuality and the meaning of each orchestra-section without wishing to investigate some of the higher works of more brilliant significance. Among the more superior musical talent that an orchestra of a high standard draws from the versatile life of this University, the ordinary Harvard student who has in some way acquired an interest for the understanding of music, can here find opportunity for gaining a first...
Some of the subjects suggested are: agricultural education; a lumber policy for the United States; what form of education should be advised for the elevation of wage-earners from a lower to a higher industrial status in the United States; the effect of the industrial awakening of Asia upon the economic development of the West...
...Prospect Union on Central Square at which the teachers are all students, graduates and instructors in the University is an educational and social club for men, managed by wage earners. Its object is to extend to working-men opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education through evening classes and lectures, and to bring into mutually helpful contact working-men, students and teachers. It rests on a non-sectarian, non-partisan basis, being open to any man over seventeen years of age regardless of his nationality, creed, or station in life...
...Baldwin Prize of $100, which is offered annually for the best essay on a subject in municipal government, has been awarded to Arthur Dexter Brigham '12, of Boston, for an essay on "The Application of the Merit System to Higher Municipal Officials...