Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seems certain that in a few years, with growing faculties, more scholarships, and improved facilities, the Harvard engineering department will reach a higher place and hold a more assured reputation than at present. Indeed it has already entered on a well-planned scheme of expansion. As its progress continues, the annual meetings of its two allied societies will have greater significance and interest each year...
...requirements would be more efficient; for at the average age of candidates for admission, the attempt to cover the present field is ordinarily attended by a parrot-like grasp of unrelated details, but by no real mastery or assimilation of the subjects. If the examiners insisted on higher standards in fewer subjects, however, the result would be two-fold: the candidates would have to gain an intelligent command of these subjects, and the examiners would thus be enable to judge of their intellectual characters. Finally, not the least benefit of such a system is the fact that it would necessitate...
...through this same love of Rhoda, with his full knowledge of her, that he conquers his own weakness and recovers his gift. They had planned to go away together to a beautiful mountain, but at the last he says to her "I tell you now of another place, higher yet, in more mysterious mountains. Travel thither for strength is there, and I will go with you, step by step, from faith to faith and from strength to strength, for I see depths of life open and heights of love come out, which I never dreamed of till now." Rhoda asks...
...game of its regular schedule to the Rindge Manual Training School Saturday afternoon by the score of 3 to 1. In its attack, the Freshman team was weak, reckless passing and inaccurate shooting losing several opportunities for them to score. Defensively the work of the team was of a higher order, but it was not strong enough to break up the more concerted attack of the visitors...
...street, this evening at 7 o'clock. The duties of the candidates will be outlined and explained and the regular work of the competition will begin tomorrow. No previous experience is necessary. The competition is planned to be a short one, but the quality of work required will be higher than in previous years...