Word: standardness
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...Harvard athletic grounds. If the faculty desire so much that athletics should become more general, only let them purchase or level a few more acres of ground anywhere near the college and they will find that the desired expansion will take place at once. By this resolution the standard which Harvard is to maintain in the future will be decidedly lowered. By force of circumstances we happen to be isolated from all the other colleges where athletic games are indulged in. For this reason we are dependent upon the various athletic organizations in the neighborhood for that practice, without which...
...standard for admission to Rutgers has been raised ten per cent...
...doubt the intention of the faculty that the several elective courses shall involve equal amounts of study; but they have discovered no adequate means of establishing and preserving an equality. The standard of value now used is the number of hours of instruction per week; the amount of work to be required of the student is left to the discretion of the individual instructors. They are of course not perfectly informed concerning the amount and thoroughness of work done in other electives; they must depend largely on what they observe in their own sections. No instructor would wish to condition...
...letters should be sent to the faculties of other colleges inquiring as to their action. If five of the colleges most nearly associated with Priceton's athletic interests concur, the resolutions will be adopted. A member of the faculty committee said that the object was to eliminate the professional standard from college athletics and to put the men of all colleges on an equal basis. Harvard, he said, would pass the resolutions any way, but Princeton would not concur on that account or on account of the concurrence of five of the smaller colleges. "Yale," said the gentleman...
...demand, and this double draft upon their energies sometimes costs them their degrees. Men have been induced to enter the professional schools after graduation, that they might help retain the championship for certain sports. The evil of such a course is two-fold. It tends to raise the standard of the sport beyond the capacity of the undergraduate, and thus limits the number that can participate in it. It makes hard work of what was intended as a recreation. Therefore...