Word: standard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...must be very trying to the government of a University like Harvard, that has already been attempting with its limited means to advance the standard of education, to see a large sum given to found a new college. The older Universities would, on many accounts, be far more able to furnish post-graduate instruction of a high grade, for their corporations are more experienced, their reputation is sufficient to attract professors and students, and they have a large body of undergraduates who would spur on the resident graduates to make good progress. Still, competent judges think that "Hopkins University" will...
...rather important attribute qualifies him for winning a University benefice, save in one or two instances, while poorer men are in many ways encouraged to excel in all departments. The results are, first, that the absence of all men not dependent on college aid from the contest lowers the standard of excellence in College; and, second, that society is overstocked with unambitious gentlemen of leisure, unable to pursue professional studies, after graduating, with credit to themselves or to the sphere of life to which they aspire...
...that the magenta, which has graced so many victories, which was first displayed on Lake Winnipiseogee in 1859, and now adorns our Commons crockery, must be renounced. UNION COLLEGE has finally signified her willingness to enter the next regatta; UNION COLLEGE bears a magenta standard; and UNION COLLEGE desires us to change our colors...
...beginning to be discountenanced. When a man has been a few years out of college, he changes his mind and thinks that public performances by students ought not to be allowed. We are younger, and many of us do not, perhaps, care so much about maintaining a very high standard of dignity, provided we can amuse ourselves and our friends; but it is necessary, and indeed expedient, to show some regard for the expressed opinion of the alumni. They are expected to take an active interest in the management of the University, and therefore, if a large number of them...
...celebrated that it would be invidious to particularize. In the year 1870 a new departure took place. The established reputation of the school, its increased revenues, and the very general increase of requirement for admission to the Bar in the United States, warranted and demanded an advance in the standard. To accomplish this so desirable a result has been the object of the radical and much criticised reforms in the school during the last four years. The following attempt to state the new theory, and compare it with the old system, and from them suggest a third, is made without...