Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest ranking third year law men are invited to sit as judges on the arguments of the second year men. For the semi-finals and finals, prominent justices throughout the country are invited to preside. In the final arguments, moreover, subjects are taken up which are before, the higher law-courts of the country at that time...
...Scholarship is given annually by Mrs. Ellen C. Bonaparte. The preference in choosing the student to whom the award is to be made is given to students who have demonstrated an interest in the study of American government, and who give promise of helping in after life to promote higher standards in government and citizenship. The scholarship is awarded at the end of the Junior year to that member of the class concentrating in the department of Government who without regard to financial need, has the highest academic standing in that subject...
...What surprises me is that Americans who come over to Oxford find it more expensive than their own universities. Living expenses here seem to me to be much higher than at Merton, or any other Oxford College...
...players who are considered to be on a par with the cream of the amateur group in Karel Kozeluh, the Czech wonder, and Vincent Richards, formerly of amateur fame in this country. These two recently engaged in a match which according to eye witnesses produced tennis of a far higher brand than the Tilden-Hunter final of the national singles championship held within the last few weeks on the same Forest Hills courts. This is of course partly explained by the equality of the two players, a factor which few will contend existed in the amateur championship play...
...triangle of brass on the blunt bonnet. As he grew older Mr. Whitehead felt that business interfered with his real passion; he gave up business. He runs his school, lectures and writes on bridge. His rates for ten lessons sent by mail is $10; personal tutoring runs much higher...