Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seem an anomalous thing to say that the true scholar is out of place in our institutions of higher learning, but such is very frequently the case. Ever since the word went out that a college diploma was the only possible pass-key to wealth, wisdom, and social success, the rush of students coming to college for irrelevant reasons has threatened to swamp the true scholar. In 1895, the enrollment in American colleges was 45,000. At present it is well over 500,000. Some of the new arrivals came to snatch the technical training which would enable them...
...been laid on many and varied doorsteps. The colleges themselves have been criticized, both for not being liberal enough to the earnest scholar and at the same time not strict enough with the slacker. President Lowell last year arraigned the preparatory schools for sending their graduates on to the higher institutions improperly trained. Athletics, extra-curriculum, activities and social diversions have all come in for their share of the responsibility. In an article in the current Atlantic Monthly quoted elsewhere in this issue of the CRIMSON, W. I. Nichols '26 follows the source of the trouble back to the families...
...remedy the other. It is true that the student's tuition fee seems to have increased more rapidly than the wage of his instructor. A part of the former is necessarily absorbed by the heightened cost of maintenance of a modern educational plant. But the irresistible argument for the higher fee is the necessity of enabling the teaching force to meet the higher cost of living. It is, of course, impossible to offer the teacher, whether in the academic or professional school, a salary which will attract men and women in competition with the greater prizes in other callings...
...Lawrence Lowell on behalf of the hosts. Here is an assured promise of interest and significance. For once, one imagines, the theme of oratory will be not largely concerned with football. Two great educators will stand together before the Boston alumni of their two institutions, and the cause of higher education will have bright light turned upon it indeed. --Boston Transcript...
With the idea of capturing again the thrill that used to come in September this week he visited a few institutions of higher learning and studied modern trends among the undergraduates...