Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state at least the claims of the willing but less education lawyer have been tested and rejected. But the primary significance of the New York regulations is not for the cause of education, but for the community at large. Though higher education does not set up to be a training in practical justice, it does purport to be a training in judgement. Evidently the New York courts have realized this and hope to take advantage of it. Perhaps the realization may spread, and it may some to be more generally felt that it is more important for the community...
...author, a recent graduate of this institution, confines herself to the girl's college alone; but if, as she seems to think, higher education at one of the best feminine institutions is nothing more than a farce, it would be too sanguine to suppose that even the top rank of men's universities are above criticism. Unfortunately for Miss Warfield, however, she does not prove her case. She says with the satiric generalization which has become popular in the last decade, that the typical "college woman." If she hered; and, largely as a result of this veneer, thin but adequate...
...even those whose undergraduate days were little more than a succession of dances and triumphs in feminine politics and sports may still have profited somewhat, even by the thin veneer of culture, she also leaves out of the question. The article proves nothing except that the whole question of higher education, its advantages and defects, is too broad for one mind too grasp, especially if that mind be more intent on satire than on sympathy...
...most affect, should regard it as a part of their personal welfare. There is no need for mock heroics just as there is no place for the purely destructive attitude. What may be looked upon in other places as but one more corruption of the old Germanic regime of higher education and as but a further opportunity to call forth a nonexistent student conscience is to those whose careers with which it is indissolubly connected an eminently practical problem, and one which can be solved only by the sincerest cooperation. That cooperation begins in the preparations for the respite--even...
...What plan do I follow when I pardon somebody? First I examine his War record. Evidently, if he is maimed or has won medals or passed several years in the trenches he has higher chances for clemency than one who has not. Then I examine the state of his health and his family. Finally, I examine what the deportee himself has to say for himself...