Word: standard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more popular color, has this same disadvantage, and unless some precaution is taken various shades will be sold for crimson. If arrangements could be made with some one house to manufacture and import for Harvard a given line of crimson ribbons which should be dyed after a fixed standard, the difficulty would be obviated. In this case, Harvard men would know just where they could buy the exact shade, and the enterprising shop-men of Saratoga could stock their counters with what was really Harvard's color, and not, as last year, sell quite another shade from the true...
...fact, no one who is interested in the subject can attend the course without being able to form intelligent opinion upon the subject, and to gain some standard, beside that of a mere uncultivated fancy, by which to judge of the merit of engravings; and the audience, although not as large as might be expected from the value of the course, yet is all that could be wished in the evident interest and attention which it manifests...
...tablet might be designed of some suitable material, large enough for a man's name and the date of his class and death, perhaps, to be fastened on the wall, with a shelf below for the standard biography. The whole affair, books and all, need not cost more than ten dollars, and, as it should be one of the highest honors the University has to bestow on her sons, it would not be necessary often enough to make any considerable expense; even if it did, the occupant of the room would be willing to pay part of the expense...
...class crews and another for club crews. It is much better to adhere strictly to one kind. The method we suggest prevents the club crews from being superseded one half the year, besides affording satisfaction to the greatest number, and being the best way by which to advance our standard of oarsmanship...
...allow us all the liberty of choice that could be desired. Our fellow-students have an excuse in the numerous social duties which the neighborhood of a great city entails. But we wish that more generous contributions from them might tend to raise, us nearer to the inattainable standard of our Middletown contemporary...