Word: standardness
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...standard time now in use makes the hours for recitation close 16 minutes later each afternoon than in former years, so the eleven has just so much less time for practice each evening before darkness closes...
...Varsity by playing against it daily. But the usefulness by no means ceases here, it is the school in which many of the men who are to bear our colors on the field next fall receive their training. Many a man, too, who fails to reach the standard of play necessary to secure a place on the University team is induced to keep in training in the hope of being chosen for the second team, with the prospect of ultimately working his way into the coveted position on the first eleven. Now, since this junior eleven plays such an important...
...required to reach an average of 50 per cent. on the whole course in order to make sure of a degree, and the new rule will only result in producing a more even distribution of his work. The entire change tends toward raising the standard of scholarship at the college, and ought to be received with satisfaction by those who have its welfare at heart. From the 33 1-3 per cent. of a few years ago, to the 50 per cent. of to day, is a stride which the "grinds" will hardly notice, but which may serve to induce...
...where the members of the club became acquainted with one another and had an opportunity to discuss the various topics which are of interest to the bicycle world. The management of the club this year has started out with the determination to keep the club up to its former standard, and has so far succeeded very well. But we think the safest way to to keep alive the interest in the club and to unite more closely its members, is by holding an occasional "smoker," which will undoubtedly prove as successful as any of those of last year...
Jarvis Field was the scene of many an exciting game of football, last fall, between scrub elevens, representing various club tables, or some of our many societies. Just enough rivalry attended the games to make the play exciting, and, at times, really up to the standard of good work. But these games resulted in more benefit to the football interest at Harvard than one could be led to suppose. They did more than to merely amuse the men who made up the contesting elevens, and the score or so of their friends who strolled out to the field to witness...