Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under higher or lower conditions of temperature his efficiency decreases. It was discovered, for example, that in a temperature of 110 degrees man's efficiency is only 18 per cent, a reduction of 6 per cent over his efficiency at 70 degrees. This is the condition in many branches of industry, as in steel mills and glass works. It is believed that further work in this line, and adaptation of its results to practical problems will prove of great value in such branches of commerce...
...that are being published each day Mr. Sterling, even though he knows little of fifteen minute education and has practically ignored the Harvard reading period, declared that he could read 15 or 20 books a day. At this gait he would hit, he was bound to admit, only the higher dirty spots of our modern mound builders...
...come in for a particularly heavy share." The charge of immorality which is mentioned, is the outcome of the country wide publicity given a questionnaire on sex distributed three years ago in a course in advanced psychology at the suggestion of students, and without the knowledge of the higher college authorities. But the news added meat to the theories of persons already convinced of the seditious and iconoclastic tendencies of the colleges, and it was consumed with relish. The recent tragedy, in some inexplicable way, was held to confirm such opinions...
...significant revelation of the public's ready acceptance of anything which may damage the repute of higher education, that such charges should become so widely believed that a college of the standing of Smith should find it necessary to refute them, and appeal to the alumnae for further controversion. A typical attack, called "Why the College Sap?" may be found in this month's Ladies Home Journal. For there it reaches the mothers of potential college students, to assail them with serious doubts of the desirability of the college influence. In the optimistic belief that virtue eventually triumphs, this wearisome...
...contest. It is still an honor to be the first man in the class to make the CRIMSON and although the distinction may make no practical difference on the Board itself, there is a traditional respect paid to the editor who led his Freshman competition. Whether he attains any higher office or not he remains the dean of CRIMSON men in his class and in all matters of form takes precedence over his fellow editors...