Word: standard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hope to make a good showing in the proposed tournament, as many men as can should offer themselves as candidates for the team, and by constant shooting, perfect themselves to such a degree as to get places on the team, or at any rate to raise the standard of shooting above what it is now. There are a few men who are present at almost every shoot, and those, in almost every case, are the men who make up the present team. They do not go up because they are on the team, but rather they are on the team...
...left the whole of his library, amounting to some six hundred volumes, together with his collection of paintings, to Harvard College. The books have not yet arrived at the library, but a list of them has been received which shows the contribution to be composed principally of standard works...
...spring concert. Every one expects to hear a creditable performance and without the Pierian the concert will not be so interesting as usual. The present Society ought to feel, moreover, that it is not their right to allow so well known an organization to fall away from the standard which men of former years worked so hard to build...
...fourth and last concert by the Kneisel Quartet was given in Sever 11, last evening. The concert was a success in every way and fully up to the standard already established by this organization. It would have been impossible, perhaps, to select two works more eminently fitted to display the technical abilities of the players than these quartets of Beethoven and Brahms yet each selection was rendered in a manner highly satisfactory to the audience. The movements which found most favor with the audience were the Scherzo from the Beethoven quartet and the andante and Menuetto from the Brahms quartei...
...verse of this number is of an unusually high standard "Lai" by H. McCulloch, Jr., contains some fine thoughts and considerable expression. "Sea Dreams" by H. Bates recalls summer days of quiet musing by the water...