Word: standardness
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...point which our correspondent makes in his communication is a good one. Several times complaints have been published in our columns on the subject, but apparently our words of wisdom have fallen on barren ground. There is no reason why our debates should not attain nearly as high a standard as those of the great debating clubs at Princeton, for instance, yet there usually seems to be but little effort on the part of five-minute speakers to do more than merely exercise their voices for the benefit of nobody. We trust that the eyes of the officers...
...intended to furnish similar courses to those given by Harvard and Yale and a high standard of excellence for entrance is to be maintained. The tuition fee is to be of a like amount to those of neighboring institutions. The building of the professional schools which are to be added, is to be deterred until a year or so before the first class graduates. There are to be no dormitories, at least for the first two years. Mr. Clark believes that for the present none are needed, as he expects to draw his pupils mainly form the young...
...tabulating the first thousand measurements, the sum representing the potential strength, and the sum representing the actual strength were found to correspond closely in healthy people who had received no preparatory training. This fact, an accidental discovery, was made a relative standard to work by. If the actual exceeded the potential strength, the condition was marked plus the amount of the excess. If the actual fell short of the potential, the condition was marked minus the amount of the deficiency...
...meet this difficulty that Dr. Sargent has prepared the anthropometric chart. It is intended to furnish the youth with an incentive to systematic and judicious physical training, by showing them at a glance their relation in size, strength, symmetry and development to the normal standard as deduced from the measurements of ten thousand individuals, ranging from seventeen to thirty years...
...Trusts," in which he makes a very strong case against the irresponsible corporations which have grown up and become such a feature in the American business world. He points out forcibly the unfairness of permitting such institutions to continue under their present form. The practical experience of the Standard Oil Trust and of the Cottonseed Oil Trust are quoted as among the most glaring instances of this nuisance. Some interesting data about the Law School and recent cases make up the rest of on admirable number...