Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when its educational institutions are considered. Usually those portions of the country best equipped with colleges and universities are those betraying the most liberal tendencies. In the more provincial areas a certain prudishness about intellectual matters is expected. But in the Commonwealth, whose hoast is its great opportunities for higher education, the opposite is true...
...Public Responsibility for Education: State Support of Higher Institutions," Professor Cabot, Lawrence...
Reviewing the development of higher education in America before the Liberal Club last night, Professor F.W. Taussig '79, Professor of Economics in the University, reached the conclusion that the growth of graduate schools will either force colleges out of existence or necessitate the adoption of a shorter undergraduate course. "America", stated Professor Taussig, "is unique in the long duration of schooling precedent to a professional career. With four years in college, two to four years in a graduate school, and several years of experience in practical affairs before a man is prepared for his profession, the average age of starting...
...There is no place in the world where there is a higher code of honor and ethics than in Wall Street. Every day transactions involving millions of dollars are carried on over the telephone without the suggestion of a signature or a written commitment. Any man or any institution showing the slightest disposition not to play fair is not allowed to play...
About the hardest question that can be put to an undergraduate concerns the purpose of his presence for four years at an institution of higher learning. Some general agreement can be secured on the thesis that a full college life consists of several different phases, many of them highly to be desired. Formerly, extra curricula activities were the phase which not only predominated, but actually excluded scholarship. The tendency of late has been in the opposite direction, as the decreased interest in each and every form of activity shows...