Word: standardizing
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...varying the monotony of his life (if such it be) by an occasional trip in a yacht to Minot's Light or Nix's Mate, or by a visit to City Point; or, again, by reading some stirring novel like Guerrazzi's "Beatrice Cenci," or else some of the standard authors or the old dramatists and poets...
...last attempt of the Faculty to barricade the royal road to learning cannot be called either a successful or a well-advised movement. We have never loudly remonstrated against the changes which, by raising the standard, added to our labors. We have endeavored, during the year that is closing, to take as calm a view as possible of all the differences that have arisen between undergraduates and the powers above them. We have no desire now to break out into violent language, - to rail against "tyrants and oppressors," in speaking of the new rule by which every one who enjoys...
...these days of progress, when the attention of the Faculty is especially directed to the different ways in which the standard of scholarship may be raised, there is one class of students whose interests are little considered, and who seem destined to be the scapegoats of every disagreeable required study which is discarded by the other classes. It is hardly necessary to explain that the class referred to are the Freshmen, and we are too well acquainted with the studies with which they are afflicted to make an enumeration necessary. There is, however, one characteristic of the Freshman curriculum which...
...from an instructor who has always shown himself exceptionally kind and considerate in his relations to the students, as well within the recitation-room as without it, were welcomed by many as a sign that some members of the Faculty, at any rate, while desiring to raise the standard of scholarship, and to treat the students less like school-boys than has formerly been the case, desire also to improve the relations which exist between students and professors, and to increase the feelings of confidence which each body should have in the other. The request in regard to proctors...
...much a sign of a loafer as to take them now is the sign of having done hard work. Many a man graduates at present without honors who has made excellent use of his time during the four years of his course. There can be no doubt that the standard of the University would be raised decidedly, if more men cared for academical distinction. The reason that they do not is to be found in the requirements which are imposed on those who wish to be considered candidates for honors. They are obliged to take so many hours of electives...