Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stuart Crocker, a General Electric associate of Chairman of the Second Dawes Committee Owen D. Young; 2) Frederick Bate, Secretary of the Committee; 3) M. de Sanchez of the Morgan Company; 4) Leon Fraser, Paris representative of Agent General of Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert. In thus projecting on a higher plane the luncheon club habits of Babbitts, these junior tycoons confirmed the fixed belief of Frenchmen that "Americans are all alike...
With the thought, enthusiasm, and money which has been expended in late years in reforming, if not wholly remodeling institutions of higher learning, there has become ever more apparent, the fact that the gap between the universities and the secondary schools not only has by no means been bridged, but rather is increasingly widening. Such must, indeed, inevitably be the case, the colleges advancing rapidly along the lines both of greatly diversifying their curricula and at the same time emphasizing specialization, the schools remaining essentially stationary both in courses of study offered, and in the attitude taken to them...
...have, if somewhat hesitatingly, been put forward on the part of the secondary schools, there still remains the barrier imposed by the college entrance examinations. And it is from the side of the colleges, it seems, that the next step in unifying the educational programs of the secondary and higher institutions of learning must come...
This glorified notion of college must be exploded. And the culture tilt is one way of counteracting the effect of gigantic athletic enterprises, and restoring an old emphasis upon the concept of college and higher education. --The Campus (College of the City of New York...
...Griggs concluded by saying that modern universities ought to acquire a higher spiritual aim and a liberal culture over against the methodical and specialized methods they new have...