Word: standards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HERR MAURICE KEIL (from Saxony), Teacher of German, will be happy to read with Undergraduates from German classical authors, or other standard works; or give private instructions in the German Language...
...writer of the article referred to is of the opinion that the men who now get Commencement parts will, under the new system, have "less instigation" to work. This objection might have some show of plausibility if the standard of requirements for parts were lowered, and nothing more done. But by the new system new inducements to work have been offered to these men, - the new grades, "honorable mention" and magna cum laude, have been established, and summa cum laude, an honor which heretofore has had very nearly no effect at all, will now influence the work of perhaps seven...
...work. During the vacation they will have the unusual advantage of practice with the Boston and other clubs, and if they make the most of such opportunities we see no reason why they will not be well able to keep Harvard's record up to its past high standard...
...University Crew, conclusively proves that we have not yet lost all interest in rowing, and also shows that class crews arouse a much more active competition than the old club system ever did or could. The reason for this is obvious, and, apart from the raising of our standard in rowing itself, we ought to congratulate ourselves that any scheme for reviving class feeling has been put on a substantial footing. The old club system tended to make the class feelings till less, and yet developed no club feeling to take its place. The class feeling is small enough nowadays...
...recently remarked that this scheme was like the great bill for "Giving Everybody Everything," and it certainly is. Everybody cannot be rewarded; if they were, rewards would lose all their worth. Half the essence of a prize is the distinction from others it conveys. By lowering the standard of the requirements for honours, we decrease the value of those prizes, and the hitherto highly valued graduation honours of Harvard College will soon degenerate to the level of the numerous prizes lavished among the classes of small-sized colleges...