Word: standard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...standard compound passenger locomotive, designed by S. M. Vanclain, exhibited in the transportation building at the World's Fair, and put in successful operation since, has been given to the department of mechanical engineering of Columbia. It will be mounted on friction wheels, fitted with brakes, so that it can be run at its highest speed...
...that during the last ten years there have been trained in the Harvard gymnasium over 700 physical instructors of whom many are in universities and colleges. Yet is it not a fact that should a Harvard graduate wish to get this Harvard system of physical training which is the standard for the country be must either leave Harvard and go to one of these institutions where Harvard trained men are instructing, or attend the Summer School? In reality during his four years of college life he can take advantage of the great opportunities which the Harvard gymnasium, under the charge...
...Graduates' Magazine is a state of affairs very much to be regretted. If the only motive for subscribing for the magazine were loyalty to it as a Harvard publication little could be said in behalf of the editors, worthy though that motive undoubtedly is. But the high standard which the Graduates' Magazine has maintained, and the fact that it furnishes an accurate statement of college doings difficult for graduates to obtain in such convenient form elsewhere, are practical reasons why its circulation should be larger. The magazine has certainly earned much greater support than it receives at present...
...editorial the frank statement is made that "The Advocate and the Monthly certainly are not so crude as the periodicals" of some of the smaller " 'universities,' but they are not one iota more accurate than these periodicals in their attempt to represent the literary standard which one has a right to expect of the college...
...poetry of this number is rather below the standard of the paper, though "One Waning Moon" is entertaining in spite of its sentimentality...