Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to its prestige as the oldest of American universities, Harvard has always been recognized as the one large institution of higher education where all individual social units minimize their own importance and influence in the interests of a larger and finer whole. One may say without any spirit of pomp or pride that membership in Harvard University is an end in itself and all the component parts of the community yield to its superiority. It has become almost a can't phrase to refer to Harvard as the exception which proves the rule: the rule being that fraternal organizations...
...Glenn Frank of Wisconsin, ever acute to the needs of modern education, cites the scarcity of great teachers as one of the fatal weaknesses of American universities. In this deficiency, he says, lies the source of much of the calumny which has come to be heaped on higher education. The giants of teaching are gone and in their place have left an army of efficient but mechanistic instructors who are excellently equipped as far as their technical knowledge is concerned but who lack the spirit which characterized such men as--to cite Harvard examples--Eliot and Norton...
...movement among students and women that is against national defense. If there are any two elements that give me no fear it is the women and young men. We can't keep the young men from responding to a call for war. In a far nobler and higher degree is this true of women. In all times of trial women lead . . . inspiring and supporting beyond the power...
...assure you that a woman can have at least two* children and still remain more efficient than most Right Honorable members. It takes a curious type of mind to say that woman's place is in the home. Men don't say that unless women are in the higher positions. When a woman is a charwoman or a cook nobody says her place is in the home...
...stand for this, asked the oyster's friends. Could a man swallow a slimy, wiggling baby toad and not feel any reaction in his stomach?* Edward G. Boulenger, Director of the Aquarium at the London Zoo, a stalwart oyster champion, called attention to the following evolutionary axiom: "The higher the form of life an animal has, the more keenly it suffers...