Word: standardness
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April "Atlantic" now ready. Members will do well to call and examine the stock of books which includes many standard works offered at exceedingly low prices. Among the new books may be found the translation of Heyse's "Paradise;" "Baldwin and other Tales," translated from the German of Edler by Lord Lytton; Higginson's "Hints on Writing and Speechmaking;" Blackmore's "Springhaven;" Celiere's "Startling Exploits of Dr. Quies;" Davie's "International Law;" Ribot's "Heredity...
...Gray, who followed for the affirmative, maintained that the world has outgrown large armies. Large armies are a direct encouragement to needless and exhausting wars. This was the case in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. We should live up to the high standard which William Penn reached when he made his great peace with the Indians, an event which Charles Sumner declared to be "the proudest sight which American history records...
...college gymnastic association has been organized at Princeton; its object is, of course, to raise the general standard of gymnastics in the college...
...which had its advantages, and forming another league, was a question of vital importance, and one which should not have a hasty decision. As matters have finally been decided and arranged there is every reason to anticipate a most prosperous season for the new league, in which the standard of college ball playing will be advanced in no small degree and all the games will be closer and more interesting...
...advance sheets of the second number in the present volume are out, and they promise us a number fully up to the good standard set by the new board in their first issue. We even wish there were more sheets than there are. Indeed, another short story, as good as the first one, could have a taken the place of the batch of daily themes. The practice of publishing these choice bits of literature is good, but five is too many for a paper of the size of the "Advocate." "A Fool's Revenge" is hardly a story, for there...