Word: standard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Surely "My country, right or wrong," cannot be the highest moral standard! Say rather with Karl Shurz: "My Country right or wrong . . . if wrong, to make right." ARTHUR NEWELL MOORE...
There was a day when editors on other college papers awaited the arrival of Mother Advocate before sampling the verse of the month. Certainly the seven poetic contributions of this number are exemplary, in skill at least, of the old standard. Mr. Cabot's "Transcendency" being diabolically clever, is balanced by a conventional but charming bit from Mr. Sedgwick, and their juxtaposition on the same page shows excellent editorial acumen. Turning back a page we find Mr. Rogers' "where fauns with shadows play," while below him Mr. McLane in Swiftian style lampoons certain dull poetasters. "To still the Memnonian music...
...acted in an advisory capacity during the fall season, is one of the strongest backers of the change and bases his arguments on the advantages of the English oarsmen in the Inter-Allied race at Paris last spring because of the use of a stroke which is practically standard throughout the British Isles...
...explaining the four factors in life necessary for happiness, he said: "These are, first, some moral standard by which one can shape his life; secondly, a satisfactory home life with contented relations with friends and family; thirdly, some form of work which justifies one's existence and makes him a good citizen; and, finally, some leisure and the ability to make...
...Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock this evening the University Glee Club will present the first of its series of concerts in Cambridge. In tonight's program the club is making a departure from its former custom in the standard of the music and singing which it will offer. The change from the more social aspect of the club in former years is marked by the fact that it has pledged itself to a policy of offering the highest standard of music that the ability of the University affords...