Word: standard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Archetypal standard of the human race...
...Freedom's standard now usurping place...
...might form a group; Amherst, Dartmouth, Brown, and Wesleyan, another; and so on. This is not a fine classification, but it is safe to say that the more one of these groups keeps itself from the rest the less trouble there will be. We may have, some day, one standard university which it will be the aim of every college to imitate; but until that time comes it would be better for each college to work out its own ideas and restrain any innate desire to cross swords with whoever happened to differ from those ideas...
...admission examination, the latter to take effect in the year 1877-78. In giving the reasons for this innovation, it is shown that, in addition to its necessity in a first-class school, an institution which has real prestige and power will make a money profit by raising its standard, the improved class of students greatly enlarging the reputation and influence of the institution. Here, again, the Western States have increased their representation, supplying now about one fourth of the students, while New England supplies one half, and the number from the South is also larger...
...Dental School great credit is due to the energy of the professors, who have entirely created it, working even now at merely nominal salaries. It was decided to enlarge the course of instruction, to give instruction throughout the academic year, to raise the standard for the degree, and to require at least one year's residence of every candidate for a degree; and the results are seen in the increase in its numbers and the extension of its range...