Word: standardness
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...itself regulated by the former. The great question, which the present steward has solved so successfully, is how to satisfy the great number of men who join the association every September, so that they will remain throughout the year. In order to accomplish this end a high standard of board must be firmly maintained. In doing this, however, care must be taken not to make the board so expensive that many will seek cheaper places, for a high price as well as poor quality will result in diminished numbers. Thus the steward is under two constant pressures; one forcing...
There was a penny wise and pound foolish policy that was followed at Memorial in years past. It consisted in saving expense by lowering the standard, and thereby driving away boarders. This is diametrically opposed to the policy now in vogue. Good board and many boarders make lower prices, than less expensive board and few boarders...
...Europe. To be sure money wages are higher, but it is not the amount of money, but the purchasing power of that money that is of interest to the laborer. The reason that the condition of the European laborer is worse than that of the American, is because his standard of living is so much lower. When he receives large wages he spends his money in luxuries, champagne for himself, and silk dresses for his wife, and then when hard times come he is destitute. This is the reason why protectionists find squalor and poverty among the laboring classes...
...more interesting nature than usually falls to the lot of commencement parts. The absence of Prof. Hill, who has heretofore practically taken entire charge of commencement exercises, is unfortunate, but Mr. Briggs has shown so much interest and determination to make the exercises rise above the standard of former years, that the commencement parts of this year bid fair to be much better than the average in late years...
...more interesting nature than usually falls to the lot of commencement parts. The absence of Prof. Hill, who has heretofore practically taken entire charge of commencement exercises, is unfortunate, but Mr. Briggs has shown so much interest and determination to make the exercises rise above the standard of former years, that the commencement parts of this year bid fair to be much better than the average in late years...