Word: standard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second floor the men will be once more allowed the privileges of the library of the Union, which furnishes, in addition to a large collection of standard literature, many files of current periodicals and all University publications. Here also may be obtained a limited supply of texts, references and books for outside reading in many University courses...
...advocated unrestricted profiteering. We have business men who persistently oppose schemes for national saving on a large scale,-such as discontinuance of the purchase of non-essentials,-because it would injure their particular business. We have employers who refuse to give their workmen enough wages to maintain a decent standard of living. We have various over-rich persons in the community ignoring completely our government's plea for conservation. We have lawyers, politicians, and other men holding positions of public trust that are susceptible to advances by unscrupulous individuals. We have ministers who have become impregnated with the subtle influence...
...physical changes to be expected during his 20 years' absence, Harvard has preserved its most characteristic features, both in its appearance and in its social life. But he also finds at work a new spirit, leading away from the mechanical German methods of literary study towards the French academic standard which inculcates respect for the human in man. His fellow-countryman, confining his attention to the undergraduate, finds our young men animated by a great loyalty of spirit, an absolute confidence in a favorite instructor, which argues well for the morale of our new army. He finds, more-over...
...contract as arranged with Cottrell & Leonard provides for a price of $5.50 for the standard cap and gown...
...warning. When the war is over a period of reconstruction will come, unparalleled in the world's history. This will be a world Renaissance, and even so far as the arts of the world are now dragging in the dust, so then they will be raised to a standard as high as they are now low. The engineer and the architect will rebuild broken material Europe, the teacher, the philosopher, the sociologist and the journalist must rebuild the minds of the nations, downtrodden in the struggle with a material might. To plant the flowers and the joys of life again...