Word: loweringly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Ascetics and mystics have sometimes carried their exaltation so far as to despise the things by which mankind must live, but the great mass of men have erred in the other direction, by seeking only the things of the present. True religion and spiritual wisdom consist in regarding the lower as steps to the higher, without losing sight of the end to which they are only a means...
...Smith has also conducted exhaustive researches on tuberculosis, was the first to recognize that there were distinct differences between the bovine and human tubercle bacilli, and contributed to our knowledge of hog cholera, anaphylaxis, contagious abortion of cattle and streptococcic sore throat. He discovered several new parasites of the lower animals, one of them the micro-organism of blackhead in turkeys, a disease of large economic importance. This discovery will help reduce the cost of Thanksgiving dinners. He has devised many laboratory procedures; one of these, the fermentation tube, is universally used by bacteriologists for the study of gas formation...
...ideal arrangement, therefore, is to place the administration of the entrance requirements in the hands of someone who will be equally sympathetic with both aspects of the problem, who knows the school situation from long experience but who will also keep in mind the fact that no college can lower its admission standards without ultimately being forced to drop its requirements for graduation as well. This is the arrangement which Harvard has now been able to make and the schools of the country will watch its workings with the greatest interest. Boston Herald
...vacant appointments from their congressman and a recommendation from the Professor of Military Science and Tactics, will be admitted to the Military Academy provided they can satisfy the physical and legal requirements. A list of the Congressional Districts in which there are vacancies has been posted in Lower University, on the Military Science Department Bulletin Board. There are about 200 vacancies in all, a large proportion of these being from the Southern states. The list of New England vacancies follow: Massachusetts, 10th and 12th districts; Maine, 2d, 3d and 4th districts; Rhode Island, 1st district;, and one senatorial appointment...
...whose names are here placed in the order, of the number of votes they received, led the 20 candidates who were listed on the postal ballot. Five of them will be elected by vote of the alumni of the University on Commencement Day, June 24. The polls in Lower Massachusetts Hall will be open from 9.30 A. M. until 4 P. M., according to present plans...