Word: standard
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...host to foreign visitors, from all over the world. Then might come another series, giving the student of today some more definite idea of the changes in this single administration of forty years. It would be well to read something further about the steps in the rise of standard with increase of numbers; of the tenfold increase of officers, all of whom are now appointees of the present administration; and of the growth of University income from $20,000 to $2,000,000. But the nine articles already give a good picture; a record of active patience upholding steadfast purpose...
...demand for such a variety of mitts and gloves, in all styles and shapes, in different materials and at different prices to meet varied requirements has resulted in making the Reach lines the standard of the world...
Contrary to the usual custom the baseball team is starting on its southern trip before any of its scheduled games on Soldiers Field. But from what has been seen of the team at practice, the batting seems to be particularly good, and the fielding well up to the standard of past seasons. The games in the South should give the team the competition needed to fit it for the long series of games to come...
...current number of the Advocate is made up of five timely and well-expressed editorials, three poems, one play, three stories, and an essay. The verse is of the average undergraduate standard. The play attempts too much in a short space to be effective. Of the stories, "The Man in Puce Waistcoat" relates a humorous incident, apparently in Eighteenth Century England, of how the choleric gentleman, in the costume described, lost five pounds by betting that another wayfarer at the inn could not cure the servant girl's earache. The pain, proved to be caused by an ant which...
...success of the Union next year depends to a great extent on the officers to be elected today. On these men, particularly the vice-president, will fall the responsibility of keeping the Union up to the high standard of past years, and of still further increasing the importance of its position in the lives of its members. They must arrange for lectures and entertainments, and devise other means to make the club an indispensable part of University life. At the last election only a very small per cent. of the members voted. We hope that the number today will...