Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...farmers has increased 19 per cent., while the increase of white farmers is only 9 per cent. Again, at the time of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation only 3 per cent. of the negroes in the United States could read or write, whereas now over 57 per cent. can,--a higher average than many countries of Europe can boast...
...attempt at a goal from field there has been no chance to score. Yale and Harvard both fought hard and both elevens were playing splendid football. Camp and Felton shared the honors in the punting department as neither gained any material advantage in their kicks. Felton's punts went higher and were a trifle harder to handle than those of Yale...
...valuable writings by the most eminent scholars can not be made accessible to others, because of the fact that the commercial publisher can not afford to publish them. In England the presses of Oxford and Cambridge supply this need, and are splendidly equipped with all the necessary type that higher scholarship requires in such fields as Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, and mathematics--a fact which often forces American writers to go to England to have such books printed...
...successful. Its thought has long been forcing a way into publication by various channels. Separate endowments enable books in the various branches of scholarship to be published by commercial houses. The University itself, however, can not handle what rightly belongs to it, and with its equipment cannot aspire higher than to the publication of registers and catalogues. To establish a press that would publish all that expression of the University which now seeks other channels, and to publish also the many other theses, reports and books that deserve publication, calls for a press that would cost $100,000. Another...
...circulars recently sent out to the secretaries of clubs, the Student Council Committee on Organizations, whose aim is to assist in establishing a higher standard and a greater efficiency among student organizations at Harvard, proposes a co-operative system of registration of organizations other than social, athletic, and editorial, in order to carry out more effectively the work for which it was established...