Word: standard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This course was instituted twelve years ago by several influential Harvard alumni, notably Charles O. Brewster '76, and the Harvard Department of Music--the object being to provide perfectly free opportunity for all students in the University to begin an acquaintanceship, at any rate, with standard works of classic and modern musical literature. The feeling was that no one should claim to be a cultivated man of letters unless his general knowledge of music was somewhat on a par with that which is reasonably taken for granted by the world in such other arts as poetry, prose, painting, and architecture...
...misunderstanding. Unification of policies will result in the smoothness which occurs when each college is working toward a common end in complete accord. With the universities of this part of the country united in two or three big alliances it will be possible to set and maintain a standard of sports otherwise impossible and thereby a truer spirit of athletics will be fostered...
...large outlays of money and time only to find themselves incapable of keeping up with the work required. After using several methods the comprehensive examination system at present seems to be the most practical for determining the candidate's ability and at the same time for maintaining a high standard for college work, Columbia has gone one step further in adopting psychological tests as well as examining her prospective students...
...athletic heads of Yale, Princeton, and the University, represented respectively by Professor Corwin, Dean McLenahan and Professor R. B. Merriman '96, the question of closer triangular athletic alliance among the three colleges was under discussion. It was believed that a closer athletic relationship would tend to form a high standard of athletic rules which would be submitted to the college athletic world on the basis of fair-play and not in a spirit of imposing their will upon other colleges. The definite decisions made at this meeting will be published at an early date...
...stage organizations, being the only college dramatic club to write, act, and produce its own plays, and the only one, with the exception of certain societies in co-educational institutions, to have women act the women roles, a policy which has brought its performances much nearer to the professional standard than is possible where men do the female parts. Membership in the club is determined by competitions, which are held in acting, business, publicity, and stage managing, scenery and costume designing, and lighting. No previous experience is necessary for candidates, some of the most successful men in the past having...