Word: standards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would not have you become one by putting in the plea of human frailty. What men are it is our duty to consider only as the starting-point to what men may be. To justify our acts by other men's is to set up an external standard which, in politics for instance, would induce corruption to grow stronger and in thirty years destroy this nation. We've had enough servility. No emancipation proclamation was ever more urgently needed than that which shall release the countless slaves of public opinion, and put a stop to such theatrical performances as that...
...last attempt of the Faculty to barricade the royal road to learning cannot be called either a successful or a well-advised movement. We have never loudly remonstrated against the changes which, by raising the standard, added to our labors. We have endeavored, during the year that is closing, to take as calm a view as possible of all the differences that have arisen between undergraduates and the powers above them. We have no desire now to break out into violent language, - to rail against "tyrants and oppressors," in speaking of the new rule by which every one who enjoys...
...these days of progress, when the attention of the Faculty is especially directed to the different ways in which the standard of scholarship may be raised, there is one class of students whose interests are little considered, and who seem destined to be the scapegoats of every disagreeable required study which is discarded by the other classes. It is hardly necessary to explain that the class referred to are the Freshmen, and we are too well acquainted with the studies with which they are afflicted to make an enumeration necessary. There is, however, one characteristic of the Freshman curriculum which...
...from an instructor who has always shown himself exceptionally kind and considerate in his relations to the students, as well within the recitation-room as without it, were welcomed by many as a sign that some members of the Faculty, at any rate, while desiring to raise the standard of scholarship, and to treat the students less like school-boys than has formerly been the case, desire also to improve the relations which exist between students and professors, and to increase the feelings of confidence which each body should have in the other. The request in regard to proctors...
...conclude with justice, that an innovation such as that proposed by the instructor in Fine Arts would not only have the effect of not increasing the use of help in examinations, but would also have an effect upon the relations of the students to the Faculty, and upon the standard of honor in College, the advantage of which could not be overestimated...