Word: standardness
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...Princetonian says of the position Harvard has been taking in regard to foot-ball, that "the Harvard faculty might better have allowed the Harvard undergraduates to stand by the ship, and have done Harvard's share in raising the standard of the sport, rather than to temporarily desert and leave Yale and Princeton to overcome the difficulties present and prepare everything for Harvard's safe return...
...granted, then, to start with, that a man has a fair knowledge of the more mechanical side of writing, the question for him to settle is in what direction he shall turn his skill. If men carefully thought over this problem, the standard of work in our papers could be much raised...
...work for a better condition, as the present is the "natural order of things." After science has pointed out certain results, sympathy comes in and teaches how to use these results. The sphere of sympathy is as wide as humanity. The new political economy shows that no ideal standard of man need be omitted. Years pass before the beautiful adjustments between capital and labor, on which the optimists dwell, come to pass. Legislation may do much to help in industrial crises. As witnesses of this, the good effect of the establishment of coffee houses, savings banks, etc., on the continent...
...sets of dining hours must be introduced, or a new dining association must be formed. The last plan is most feasible. If a small dining association could be formed and provided with the proper outfit, and managed so as to meet the demands of the richer students, - a standard of board being provided that would cost $6.00 or $7.00, - Memorial would be relieved of the coming overflow. When Memorial is full there is every danger of high prices in Cambridge boarding houses. When they become too exorbitant, and it will take many years to effect this result, there will...
...strongly made. But upon this subject a difference of opinion is inevitable. And yet there is much reason in the remarks. Hearty congratulations are due the editors of the Monthly for the true merit of their last publication, and their future work promises to raise still higher the elevated standard they have placed before them...