Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...public school graduates stand higher scholastically at Harvard than private school men? That the former are head and shoulders above the latter in acquiring academic honors is indisputably shown by statistics published in the December Graduates' Magazine. But the statistician went no further. He merely shrugged his shoulders, said "Judge for yourself," and left the private schools to rest on their laurels. Whereupon Professor Dallas Lore Sharp and the editorial columns of numerous papers proceeded to pass sentence of death upon our endowed secondary institutions...
...however," he answered, "that in my mind there can be no question that the human being continues in one form or other. There is no death and it should be impossible for us to conceive of any save as a passing on to some higher sphere. Death should not be a matter for grief but for rejoicing -when the body dies the soul continues unhampered to a happier, completer world...