Word: standard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believe, this initial donation is but the first step in a drive for richer and more profitable results in education, it will tend toward the eventual raising of the whole standard of American education,' and of the esteem in which. American schoolmasters and instructors are held. Certainly thanks are due for this generous appropriation to Mr. John D. Rockefeller and the General Educational Board of which he is chairman, from all college men who are interested in the broad subject of American culture...
Four large screens which will contain the photographs of the Harvard dead are also being prepared by the Memorial Society. It has been possible to obtain likenesses of a very large proportion of those who died in the war, and these have all been reduced to standard size. The screens will be completed...
This measure was drawn up some time ago as a result of the agitation in various quarters to increase the physical fitness of the average University man. It was found that the standard of college men entering the army was especially low, as was proved by the number of those rejected. Yale has a system of compulsory exercises for men in their freshman year, and this has proved an effective plan. It is expected that this measure, if carried through, will tend to produce similar good results here...
...range of instruction, if the point of view of the professor and that of the student are not to be hopelessly divergent. It ought to help redeem the summer vacation, now so striking an anomaly in an age of conservation. It ought to stimulate a more generous reading of standard books, outside of the class-room assignments, in the field in which the student is concentrating, and to add to the value of the tutorial system. --The Nation...
...annual trials for the Boylston Prizes for Elocution held last week, A. A. Rouner '20, and F. C. Packard '20, were awarded the two first prizes of $30 each. Their addresses dealt respectively with the "American Standard," taken from a speech of Booker T. Washington '96, and a poem by Alfred Noyes, "The Highwayman." Three second prizes of $20 each were also awarded as follows: R. E. Eckstein '20, "Joan of Arc," by Quincy; V. A. Kramer '18 ocC., extracts from a speech of President Wilson on the League of Nations; E. B. Schwults '19, "The Monroe Doctrine." The judges...