Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baldwin has effected a change. When he leaves office he may be the only Prime Minister for a century who has left the House of Lords reduced in size. Distinguished records in the colonies and large London bank balances are going unrecognized. Feeling runs strong for a higher peerage turnover...
...Junior College, An Indictment" is the title of Professor Palmer's article, which aims to show that the four year college course is the most vital and worthwhile element in American higher education and would be seriously interfered with by the Junior College...
...month of April begins this year with a squad which has reached a higher point of development than any Coach Mitchell has had in recent years. The outdoor sessions, made possible at an earlier date than usual and the present excellence of the Soldiers Field turf, will undoubtedly prove a valuable asset later in the season, when the 36 game schedule will call for unusually good condition on the part of the players...
...clarified the whole issue so far as the movement represented by Leland Stanford and Johns Hopkins is concerned. He has overlooked its high usefulness as a weapon for the protection of the arts college and the "scholarly amateur" from a mass of applicants who are not yet fitted for higher "cultural" education and who, by their very presence inevitably lower standards and contribute to that mass production which every enlightened educational leader is trying to get away from today...
This this group is no figment of the imagination the figures of every higher educational institution in the country will testify. It represents a phase in the development of American nationality peculiar to the present era. It demands college wholesale without knowing what college means and without being able to reap the rewards of college. The phase is temporary but it is real. In order to carry the college through it without serious harm to the curriculum, ideals, and standards and at the same time to satisfy and faster the development of the intermediate group referred to above the Junior...