Word: standard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...confer degrees. It is claimed that this power is necessary to place the college on an equal footing with similar ones. Dr. Clark, in favoring the petition, said "that it was the intention of the trustees that no graduate should receive a degree unless having attained the highest standard of any college in the land...
...Although the standard for entrance to Wellesley has been raised, the present Freshman class has double the size that the last had. Over three thousand volumes were added to the library last year...
...standard by which a man's knowledge may be gauged, as tea and coffee are measured out by the system of weights and measures; to classify two hundred men and say not only that this one knows more than another, but that he knows just so much more, is to claim that the human intellect is capable of making an infinitely fine distinction. It is no wonder therefore that those who arrange for us such matters as marks, degrees, etc., have called something to their aid which is perfectly definite. It is easy to say that this man has given...
...torchlight procession, in which some of the students will participate by invitation of the Cambridge Ward One battalion, will take place on Thursday next. The line will be formed, if possible, on Temple Street, in Boston, at 7 o'clock, the members of each class rallying around the standard which bears its number. Horse-cars will be in readiness at half past six to convey the students to the place of formation. Torches will be delivered by the authorities of Ward One after 4 o'clock on the day of the parade. All students wishing to secure a place...
...apparently on moral pap. Their gentle nature shudders at the thought of the disgrace of being watched by proctors, and yet does not hesitate to allow this watchfulness to justify them in a deception and a lie. The poor creatures know no better, for they have no sovereign standard of conduct within themselves. But imagine the discomfort the tender souls will meet with in the world, where the existence of policemen and penitentiaries will be a constant imputation on their virtue; and they will become miserable if indeed they do not become, as when under proctors, liars. But you know...