Word: standard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...field. The consequences of the new rule are evident. Either the honor men will fail in their examinations, and the crew will neglect their electives, or both will overwork themselves and injure their health. We cannot see how the former privilege could injure a student or the standard of scholarship in the College, and we should like to urge upon the Faculty to reconsider this step, and unless there is a cogent reason for their action, to restore a liberty which does not seem to have been abused...
...economical method of reading at sight, and gives careful directions for doing so. English is but a medium in studying Greek, and ought gradually to be dispensed with by the advancing scholar until a medium is no longer needed. In this doctrine is the essence of reform. The standard of classical learning in America is much too low; let us welcome a well-considered attempt to raise...
...that come from the Clarendon, Edinburgh, and Glasgow presses. There is no reason why this plan, if carried into execution, should not succeed perfectly. Our scholars are as thorough as any, and the result of their efforts could not fail to be a text that would serve as a standard to colleges and schools. It is true that in Germany and England men spend their lives in comparing manuscripts, and think they have accomplished no small task if they can find some trustworthy authority for changing the spelling of a single word in a book whose text is acknowledged...
...most-important additions to the Library since December. The remaining fifteen include some more notes on authorities in American History, by Dr. Lodge; notes on "Gold and Silver," by Professor Dunbar, which give us the best works on the production and uses of gold, and on the double standard; a long notice on "Authorities for the History of the Empire and the Papacy, 1056-1122," by Mr. Emerton; one on some new theological works, by Professor Abbot; and another on "Puritans and Separatists," by Mr. Winsor. There is also a list of easy German reading; one of interesting volumes...
...prevalent among the men who come here, and which does not wholly disappear until the Annuals. Again, there would be less of cramming on special points, and of disregard for everything not likely to be on the examination-papers. And, finally, it would do something toward raising the standard of the fitting schools, and thus towards making it possible for Harvard to become, in the fullest sense of the word, a university...