Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked into the chasm of the insanity that is higher than sanity during a wilderness period following the failure of his first marriage, but regained a balance fortified by the experience. It taught him the relation of self-expansion and self-obliteration, the phases by which, like two legs constantly passing each other, mankind has marched-Roman power, Christian abnegation; Renaissance, Reformation; hayfoot, strawfoot. He renewed the motion of his days, saying: "The stream of life, like running water, can purify itself...
...structural designs in the Yard created a mystic urge to imitate, or possibly to surpass, these models for generations of undergraduate artists. Of the two hundred considered, there was a goodly number whose labors in the humorous fortnightly's art department evidently inspired them to further and possibly higher creative endeavors, and they became artists...
...with students totaling 36,000, to which were submitted these nine questions, Dartmouth stood forth as the least orthodox. In the grand total for the quiz, 87% of all answers were found to be "Yes." Such colleges as Providence, Pacific Union, Converse, Bridgewater, Carthage, Millsaps, Woffard, Shorter, Wheaton voted higher than 97% orthodox. But, such universities as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Brown, Chicago, Illinois, California, Stanford were not questioned by the International Advertising Association. Of the women's colleges, Wellesley was least orthodox with a vote of 75% affirmative; but Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr and Barnard were...
After the league schedules have been completed, the team winning the greatest percentage of its contests is awarded a pennant, emblematic of a league championship. Then, early in October, the two league champions meet to compete for higher honors, additional cash. Attended by flag-waving rooters with brass bands, unlimited free publicity from the press, the National League winners engage their American League prototypes in deadly combat?best four out of seven games, known as the World Series...
There are no available statistics to show how many marriages result from college engagements but if there were they would mean nothing. Higher education, properly speaking, has little to do with higher social education, although one may be obtained in the process of digging for the other. Popular fiction has over idealized scholastic matings. And now universities such as that for which the Nebraskan is the spokesman are faced with the problem of removing the gloss of idealism...