Word: standardness
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Princeton's prospect in football for the coming season is very bring. Many for the old eleven are still in college and their play is up to the old standard. Lamar and Baker will probably play half backs. Alex. Moffat, the famous halfback, is again studying there but it is reported that he will not play...
Another paper which has arrived early is the standard Dartmouth, and this comes out with a new cover which is very elaborate and tasteful in design, representing an editional sanctum and the college pine, side by side. This makes another paper which has followed the present custom of having decorated covers, and one which is certainly more pleasing to the eye. The other, exchanges so far are the same in appearance as last year...
...cent.) will acquire two or three times as much work in one course as in the other, and this not depending on his own special fitness for either course, but because of the amount of work which has come to be expected in each course, and the standard of marking which prevails. No blame can be attached to any instructor when the standard of his course has once become established. Naturally enough no one of them believes that his standard of marking is too easy, when the average marks of his course are no higher than the average in other...
...literature of each language. While we do not advocate an entirely classical course throughout one's whole college career, we do advise that some compromise be made between a classical and practical education, and that the ancient languages be taken through sophomore year so that the student may read standard authors whose words are as alive today as when uttered many hundred years ago, and that all the time and trouble spent over the elements of Greek and Latin may not be thrown aside as waste. The plea that this election will make a man's course complex and that...
...traditional funeral was an unenjoyable and senseless ceremony, and that it was belittling to the class to get up a circus and play the role of clowns for the benefit of outsiders." With the increase in the average age of the freshman, and the continual raising of the standard of admission, accompanied by a more manly spirit, we may soon hope to look upon cremations and other childish exhibitions of forced celebrations as a thing of the past...