Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Statistics collected by the Institute for Public Service are encouraging in that they indicate a steadily and rapidly growing appreciation of higher education among the American people. The figure are somewhat disquieting; however, to those who notice that if the demand for instruction in colleges and universities increases at the present rate-and nothing as yet indicates the probability of any change in forty years from now either the present facilities for giving higher education will have been increased several hundred times or else enormous numbers of young men and women will apply for entrance only to be turned away...
...adding to the number of their "halls" and enlarging their Faculties. It might be done by raising the standards of admission, and especially by a stern elimination of students who do not, or who cannot, demonstrate to the satisfaction of their instructors their capacity for acquiring and utilizing a higher education...
...Rand School, Stump speaker, soap boxer and temporarily paroled in my own custody by the Mount Vernon police court. Mount Vernon does not refer to Washington's birthplace but to the city of that name which an unconstitutional ordinance against free speech. As I have learned today that a higher court declared the ordinance unconstitutional I hope by the time I see an audience of Harvard students to be entirely free of any taint of crime...
...inevitable that in times of a general drop in prices, goods must be sold at a reduced profit or even at a loss, because the change in wages tends to lag behind the change of commodity rates. Hence the producer is forced to pay a higher wage than the lowered price of his commodity justifies. The only way to prevent this, is to keep prices up to the high level...
There are many strong players on the entrance lists, among whom are M. Duane, Freshman Tennis captain last year, J. R. Morss '21, and L. A. de Turenne '21, who are now playing in the higher rounds of the University tournament...