Word: standard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well-known fact that the physical test required for the football team has raised the physical standard of the Freshman class during the last two years. But there are a great many men for whom neither football nor any of the other sports offer any incentive to physical development. Such men can not be allowed to go through College without a development of body, as well as of mind, and, it seems to me, one of the plans suggested by Dr. Sargent should be immediately adopted...
...elective courses instituted in one year; but by adopting the second plan first Harvard could gradually work over into the third plan, Thus the physical development of the average student would be looked after, and, by exempting from gymnasium exercise all men on the Freshman athletic squads, the standard of the Freshman and 'Varsity teams would naturally be raised...
...scheduled for this afternoon has been postponed and instead a game with the Brown University team has been arranged to take place at Providence this afternoon. This is our first regular game of the year and as the Brown team is said to be fully up to the usual standard, a close contest is expected. The Harvard team will line up as follows...
About a dozen candidates for the ice hockey team practiced on Spy Pond yesterday afternoon. The work was not up to the usual standard, but this was in part due to the wretched condition of the ice and to the fact that several of the best men did not come...
...Hawthorne, 15; Holmes, 15; Whittier, 9; Longfellow, 14; and Emerson, 14 vol.; illus. with 349 Photogravures; their new Ed. of Bret Harte. Little Brown and Co.'s New and Elegant Ed. of Francis Parkman, 20 vol., 120 ill. by Goupil and Co., Paris. All Eds. of the Standard Authors from $12 to $100 (Eds. de Luxe); Superb Ed. of the Arabian Nights (unexpurgated), 15 vol.- very rare. Standard Dictionary and Encyclopaedia Brittanica...