Word: standard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Fiction in the May number upholds, on the whole, the standard. The verse is strong evidence of accomplishment and of promise. Mr. Botkin's "Rondel" is distinguished for simplicity and charm...
...Beaver"--a character study of a most likable beaver--is well written, Mr. Strouts' "Problem of Economics" is admirable of its kind, and Mr. Munsey's translation "From the Spanish" has a quality unusual in undergraduate publications. Possibly the other prose in the number does not attain the standard set by these three, but all of it is readable, and none of it is without interest as representative undergraduate production...
...meeting of the 1920 Smoker Committee held last night, Thursday, May 15, was set as the date for the smoker to be held next week. As usual it will take place in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock. The standard program of movies, speeches, ginger ale, and pretzels will be followed...
Yale followed suit soon afterwards by adopting "true blue" and the idea spread rapidly. Thus, almost by accident, the University came into possession of its crimson standard and at the same time set a fashion that was to attain wide popularity among schools and colleges through the land...
...Some of her most valiant sons have given their lives for our country. To a history already full of glorious deeds, Harvard has added new glory to its record. Harvard University has always stood for the defense of American can institutions, and is now continuing to maintain the standard set so many years ago in the early days of the Bay Colony. While hostilities have ceased, and we hope there will be no renewal of fighting, the cost to the government is still a heavy burden and required the assistance of the people. I urge upon all a prompt...