Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attention is drawn elsewhere in these columns to the effort recently Instituted at Columbia to adopt higher education to varying life programs. As outlined by Dean Herbert D. Hawkes, the plan seems designed to remedy such defects as have been found by many, in the plan of study which Harvard has developed of recent years. his so far as this may be true, it will be well for Harvard men to keep their eyes turned towards Columbia. It may well be that President Butler is right and that in endeavoring to arouse undergraduate interest in intellectual activity, Harvard has erred...
...BENDA is one of those writers who view the present state of the world with-alarm. His mildest predictions of future disaster foresee the disappearance of higher civilization from the face of the earth. His gloomier fore-boding envisage a universal war sufficiently perfect to accomplish the destruction of the human race itself. Having arrived at these conclusions he then sets out to discover the forces which make them inevitable...
...produced one might infer that everything was wrong with the colleges. There is apparently no reason for this sudden flux of collegiate concern, just as it is certain that there is no rhyme to it. Perhaps it has come because never before have the American institutions of professed higher learning been so popular. Perhaps popularity and excellence run by contraries...
There are men on both of the higher squads, from the team which received Springfield's kickoff down, who learned football rudiment on the class fields. But the true importance of class football is in its availability to every man in Harvard College. Vicarious experience of the game is now only a matter of choice, where once there was no other. Within reach of Everyman, and probably for the last time in his life, has been brought the hard, fine joy of playing football...
Among the Harvard group of husbands, 496 men, or 39 per cent studied for the A B degree and 176 took higher degrees at the University after graduation from other institutions. The college appearing to suffer the second heaviest inroads from Radeliffites, is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which has 66 out of a total of 1.211 or 5 per cent...