Word: standardness
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...should not continue. Any man thus asked should consider it his duty to go out and aid his twenty-two fellow students in their efforts, however unavailing, to play good foot-ball, not only on the score of good nature, but also from the desire of having a respectable standard of play...
ENGLISH B.Descriptive passages, selected from themes or from standard authors, will be read and discussed in Sever 11, on Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 2 o'clock...
...year, and the strenuous efforts to better the facilities of the gymnasium, are some of the more important works of the last committee. However futile the latter may be for the present, there is plenty of work for the committee, both in this direction and keeping up the high standard of the former. Visiting teams who have played against other colleges this fall speak very favorably of the gentlemanly game of Harvard, an immediate effect we think, of the restrictions of the committee...
...congratulate the editors of the Harvard Monthly on the excellence of the first number which has appeared. The high standard of literary work which the '86 board maintained will not be lowered this year, if the first number may be regarded as a sample of those which are to follow. With the graduation of the '86 board, the founders of the magazine, a severe loss was sustained, which it seemed it would be impossible to make good. Indeed, it was feared that the life of the Monthly would be confined to the stay of its founders in college...
...nothing of elegance. We hope our words on this matter will not fall on barren ground, and we should advise the men who are anticipating commencement assignments to put themselves in the hands of the instructor in elocution, and do their share toward bringing up a better standard of speaking in the college. We say this not alone for their own special good, but for the good of the college...