Word: standardness
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...downright earnest work which is the rule here, not the exception. The men who spend their time in Boston (there are a few) are typical of but a small class. The majority of Harvard students are hard workers. We are aware that we have not reached the standard of perfection, but we object to having the reputation of the college injured by the actions of a few. If the newspapers of the country would give less credence to the reports of people who know absolutely nothing about college affairs, and pay more attention to what actually takes place, then true...
...seventh number of the Advocate appeared Monday and seems to maintain the standard set by the former numbers of the year. There is but a scanty lot of editorials, a fault which can be excused at a time when there is little going on to deserve a paragraph, but if the truths contained in these few editorials are taken to heart by the students, they may bear some fruit. The number opens with a short poem of four stanzas in which the author attempts to tell in verse a romantic incident which ends unhappily...
...books reserved in Alcove 4, under the head of "German Department," are not, as the writer asserts, confined to the works of Lessing, Schiller and Goethe, but comprise the standard works on the literary history of Germany from the Middle Ages to the present time...
...good, while they are usually unfit to eat. The actual cooking for 850 people, including the servants, is done by five men and one woman. This number is entirely too small, and is much less proportionately, than that at West Point. To bring things up to a proper standard three men cooks should be added at a cost of $140 per month. This expense seems great but it can easily be met in any of three ways, either by adding four cents to the weekly board, by dropping one of the four vegetables served daily, or by having one course...
...make sure that the quality of the food is kept up to the standard there ought to be a salaried "inspector" responsible directly to the association which now has no real control over the fare furnished by the steward. This man should taste and examine all the food served at every meal and should have full power to discharge waiters and cooks in case they prove unsatisfactory. The inspector should be perfectly independent of the steward, and should be on hand after every meal to receive complaints about the quality or quantity of the food or service. This arrangement would...