Word: standard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...country teams bid fair to suffer from lack of material unless more men come out within the next few days. The University runners have established a splendid cross-country record in the last decade of dual meets with Yale, losing only once in the whole period, and setting a standard that the succeeding teams will have to go far to equal...
...little too over-mannered to be successful. The kind of thing they attempt can only be done well by a real master of the essay; and they belong rather to the sphere of well-meaning discipleship than of successful creation. The number by and large, is certainly above the standard of last year's Advocate. It would be admirable if the attempt to comment on political affairs were developed into a reglar feature of the paper...
Each applicant must undergo a thorough, physical examination for appointment, the standard for physical fitness being the general physical requirements for military service. The minimum standard of vision will be 20-70 in each eye, correctable to 20-40 by glasses. In juries and defects which will not interfere with the performance of proper duties by the candidate, will be noted, but not regarded as disqualifying. No candidate will be accepted whose weight falls below 115 pounds without special authority from the Adjutant General of the Army...
...program for compulsory physical training for Freshmen which has just been announced by the Faculty and now awaits final action by the Board of Governors, cannot fail to meet the approval of those who are interested in securing a higher physical standard among college men. That there is an urgent need for a different system of such training, in which undergraduates must participate, has been conclusively shown by the records of military service examinations throughout the United States...
...scholarship in the Graduate Schools corresponds directly with that obtained by men while undergraduates in the University. President Lowell ended by pointing out that if a man puts his best into his studies and also into his outside activities the former will take less tme, and will increase in standard, while the latter will be much to develop him and broaden his point of view...