Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Botany 10.--Special Morphology of the Higher Vascular Plants, the Conifers, Gnetales, and Angiosperms. Laboratory practice, with lectures and demonstrations. Tuesday, Thursday, at 9. Professor Jeffrey, assisted by Mr. Hemenway...
...real student from any part of the country will find no difficulty in entering Harvard and the loafer will find it harder, a condition that certainly would suggest a higher level of undergraduate scholarship. If the scholarship within the College is any cullerion of the standard of entrance requirements, it would follow also that the new system would raise the bars a peg rather than tend in any way to lower them...
...many are the courses given in abstruse and advanced subjects, where the professor collects a small circle of pupils for research work and the like, that in the large introductory courses this is by no means the case, the ratio there being generally 50 to one and often much higher. Unfortunately these latter are the courses where the need of personal contact is greatest, since the student is a novice in the field, ignorant of phraseology and a typo in method. Yet to these beginners is vouchsafed the least assistance, the section men to whom is left the task...
...that the growth of New England must henceforth be gradual, it may happen that the University must be content to develope its undergraduate department more slowly than in the past. Great educational centres are developing in the middle and far west, which seem to provide suitable opportunity for higher education in the regions where population is increasing most rapidly. On the other hand, the experience and prestige of the Harvard graduate schools leaves them almost preeminent, and as more and more men each year demand professional training it is only natural that the graduate departments should show a constant...
...Every elector shall vote for three candidates, indicating his preference for First Marshal. Of the three elected that candidate receiving the highest number of votes for First Marshal shall be declared First Marshal; of the other two elected that one whose total vote is higher shall be Second Marshal, and the other one Third Marshal...