Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Butler of Columbia, upon the completion of the merger, declared mouthfillingly, that it was "a significant step in the evolution of the organization of higher education". But if most innovations have borne this tag, such a union must be admitted as the really hopeful direction for the dreaded mass education to take. Business developments have sufficiently demonstrated the advantages of the branch system. It universities can have the strong trunk of efficient administration and authoritative lecturers, and still diversity their branches with unit colleges of different types, such as Yale promises and Columbia provides, the fear of Ford factory...
Uneasy lies the head that wears a senatorial top-hat or even a mayor's derby. The politicians that really have fun are the big frogs in small side-puddles. But often the splashing of such frogs becomes notorious and higher authorities investigate. So it was with Maurice E. Connolly, who splashed as President of the Borough of Queens (appendage of New York City) from 1911 until last week. President Connolly's notoriety, like that of many another discredited municipal official, arose from his city's sewers...
...tire] manufacturers of the United States unfortunately cannot pass on the economies which may be effected in the future through the cheaper raw material, until the stocks purchased at higher prices have been converted into goods and marketed. If there is no upswing in rubber prices by the middle of the summer, tire prices should be cheaper by that time...
...plan of intercollegiate scholastic competition is, perhaps, that it will be taken too seriously. A comparison of the ten best divisional examination papers at Harvard and Yale in English, or in any other subject, with appropriate prizes provided for the college which is deemed to have struck the higher average could scarcely in itself be detrimental to the best interests of education. A certain amount of glory attached to the victorious college an to the individual victors is also desirable as an incentive to greater academic effort. The glory thus won by the victorious college is, however, all too easily...
...This marks the end of provincialism in Philadelphia. . . . The city has always been devoted to higher things, living in the light of culture, but in the past there has been no centre of culture in Philadelphia. . . . The city culturally has been a family without a hearthstone. . . ." These were the words of onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper; the hearthstone to which he referred was the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, at whose dedication he was making a speech. The new museum stands above the Schuylkill River, on a spot once tenanted by factories and tenements; here...