Word: highly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Major Higginson emphasized the absolute necessity of study and of the achievement of learning as a preparation for efficient life work and contentment in later days. In business, politics, and war, he said, not only high purpose, but also a mind adequately trained by education is invaluable. The world has no happiness in store for the man who does not resolutely aim at something noble and good...
...putting aside our own personal welfare or gain, we see before us the great national questions and the great humanitarian questions. The number-less social problems of wages, health, disease, charities, divisions of profits, are pressing on us and can be answered only by reason, guided by knowledge and high character, and to the University men especially falls this interesting task...
...exiled. He returned to Russia in 1901 and declined Minister von Plehve's offer of the Ministry of Education. Since then he has been professor of Russian Institutions in the University of Chicago. Should the present liberal movement succeed in Russia, it is certain that he will held a high place in the government. He is the author of several Historical works, the best known being his "History of Russian Civilization," which has been translated into several languages...
...graduates, three prizes of $200 each are offered for essays of high literary merit belonging to a special field of learning. Any holder of an academic degree in arts, literature, philosophy or science, who has been in residence in the Graduate School for one full year within a period beginning not more than two years before the time when the prize is to be awarded may compete...
...second of the two high jumping contests, held in the Gymnasium yesterday afternoon, resulted in a tie between B. T. Stephenson '08 and H. G. Douglass '05, both of whom made net jumps of 5 feet 4 1-2 inches. The first prize was awarded to Stephenson, however, as he jumped from scratch, while Douglass had a handicap of three inches. C. C. Pope '08 got third place with a net jump of 5 feet 3 3-4 inches, his handicap being 3 inches, but no third prize will be awarded...