Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduate to an Eastern university, and the loss is to both in the nature of things, only students with an unusual amount of initiative and intellectual curiosity ever break the chain that leads them either directly into a job or to the ministrations of a local academy of higher learning. Any measures towards removing the handicaps in the path of this type of candidate will both help to remove an unfair disadvantage and secure for the college desirable members...
...Corwin, McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University is writing an article on "The Higher Law Background of American Constitutional Law," of which a second installment will appear in the January issue of the Law Review. The article will be in non-technical language, so that it may be interesting and understandable to everyone...
...difficult to prophesy election results in Philadelphia. The effect of Philadelphia's bootleg investigation had to be considered (TIME, Sept. 17 et seq.). In that citadel of Vare Republicanism the Volstead act carried all its ghostly, malevolent outriders. Flagrant police corruption had been exposed. Suspects in higher positions has ceased to wink, begun to blink. The Vare regime was receiving unwelcome, unpleasant publicity...
...professors now range from $6,000 to $9,000; of associate professors from $4,500 to $5,750; of assistant professors, from $3,000 to $4,250; of instructors, from $1,800 to $2,750. One hundred and thirty-one members of the faculty received salary increases. A higher scale of faculty salaries was recommended two years ago by the Princeton Board of Trustees...
...concerts given by the Freshman Players, an organization to be welcomed at a time when classical music is deriving too little active undergraduate support. Although having its origin in the College employment office, it offers an unusually satisfactory mode of helping a few men over the financial obstacles of higher education. Certainly more attractive superficially than the usual student positions which involve the climbing of innumerable staircases or the washing of many dishes, the orchestra also offers training in an art which is valuable both financially and esthetically in after life...