Word: standard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second floor, the library will be opened. This department of the Union furnishes, in addition to files of current periodicals and all publications connected with the University, many text-books, references and reading books used in the various courses. There is also a large collection of standard literature...
Colonel Sir Walter Lawrence was educated at Cheltenham College and Balliol College, Oxford. As a scholar he is widely known for his book, "The Valley of Kashmir," which is the standard work on that country and is based upon the author's experience as reorganizer of the state of Kashmir...
...meeting of the Massachusetts school administrators at the State House in Boston on Saturday, President Lowell was the principal speaker on the question of changing the requirements for entrance to colleges in the state. He warned the administrators present against the dangers of lowering the standard of work required for entrance to college, but was in hearty accord with the idea of inaugurating any plan that would broaden the chance for more high school men to enter college...
...admission to college can be broadened without lowering the standard, it ought, of course, to be done. It ought to have been done in the past, because the more men who can be given education of a high grade, the richer the community in intellectual power, in material strength, and in physical well-being. We have striven to broaden our methods of admission as far as possible without lowering the standard. In this we have been partially successful, but, no doubt, not perfectly so; and we hope to learn to do better by experience, constant effort and openness of mind...
...organized primarily for recreation, without professional coaching or an elaborate system of training. We have neither a reputation to uphold nor any intercollegiate honors to strive for. Instead, we believe that the beneficent results of athletics are not dependent on a formally organized system of coaching and training. The standard of hockey, to be sure, will not be up to that set by past University teams, but the enthusiasm of the players will be as great...