Word: standardness
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...conscious of athletic ability would come out and help on the team. Where a man does his best for the honor of his college, he shows an honorable thing, whether he himself succeed or fail. If every athletic man would come out and work, the standard of our track athletes would certainly be raised. The freshmen are specially urged to enter their class meeting. A good freshman athlete is worth more to the college than those in the upper classes, for he will be able to represent his college for at least four years. The Athletic Assocition looks...
...latter's expectations have been fully realized. No one would to-day assert that the Monthly is superfluous, and everyone feels the elevating influence it has had on the rest of serious college journalism. This year gives promise of work that will be in no way below the high standard o excellence which this magazine ha hitherto upheld...
...Immigration lowers standard of living...
...issue invitations to the freshmen who are considered likely to respond, requesting them to furnish "punch" on Monday night to the sophomore class. Many freshmen, new to' Harvard customs, know no better than to accept the invitation, and when they view their belongings on the following morning, their standard of Harvard life has been lowered materially, and they begin to wonder whether this well-worn saying is true, "No matter what else he may be, a Harvard man is always a gentleman...
...departure this, a most auspicious one on a most auspicious day. Some old Greek has asserted that it was from the perfect style the ladies of Athens commanded in their letters, that attic prose learnt its brilliancy. The ladies of to-day have not degenerated from that standard. The essay, besides being of easy diction, shows much sympathy with the subject of it and some critical acumen. Next comes a very happy account of "The Big Bharata" by Mr. Bruce. He has made the tedious agreeable, and compressed eighty thousand lines into a sentence; indeed, with the exception...