Word: standardness
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There is one cheerful side in their delay in this matter, and that is that they may possibly wait with their decision till the time comes when Harvard will have approached so near to the ideal standard of the German University, that marks and examinations will be unknown...
...into contact with wickedness? Who is the manlier, he who has never tasted the pleasures of vice, who perhaps does not know that such pleasures exist, or he who, knowing the pleasures, possibly even having some time enjoyed them, at length overcomes temptation? According to a milk-and-water standard of morality, the former is the better man, there hangs around him an air of immaculate purity, wings might become him. But is not the latter really morally higher; does he not have more of sturdy manliness...
...fourth number of the Monthly was received at the CRIMSON office yesterday. The number, on the whole, is up to the usual standard of excellence. The potency of Prof. Palmer's arguments in the Andover Review, and the Conference Committee are urged in the editorials. Among the other interesting articles is one by Professor Toy on "The Older Arabic Poetry...
...There are as noble young men among Harvard students as ever despised cant and followed the right. Why then is this unfavorable opinion? It is simply because the rank grass has overtopped good, the tares grown over the wheat. Judged by such a standard as this verdict would necessitate, we would all be athletes, dudes, and writers of sentimental pessimistic verse. This, of course, is absurd. Let us then be judged with fairness if not leniently. We are gentlemen, and our actions prove it. Nor because we sign a prayer petition can we be justly called a "pack of boys...
...discuss the uselessness of making a certain class of students go to a service, which does not accord with their honest religious views. Leaving this idea out of the question, daily public prayers might do great good to many. Under right conditions such a service may raise our standard of thinking and living. It may be made to turn our thoughts, from the almost unavoidable sordidness around us, to the higher, and finer things of life. That the so-called daily prayers at Harvard fail in this purpose, is too true. They stimulate few or none toward better actions...