Word: standardness
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...gratifying change of opinion are, in part, the almost total disappearance of those organizations that in the early days of college fraternities mistook the true purposes of those societies to be such as must lower the intellectual and moral tone of their members, the careful maintenance of a high standard of membership by the influential fraternities, the better understanding of the fraternity system by its honest opponents, and finally the sheer exhaustion of those that heretofore have maintained a vigorous tilt at the windmill for exercise's sake, on finding that the windmill stands the attack much better than they...
...this time. Year after year the students have been compelled to sit and shiver in that antique structure when they are being examined, and year after year they have asked that by some means or other the place be made more inhabitable. It is not conducive to a high standard to give men their examinations in a room whose temperature is about that of a refrigerator. Most men do not get so heated by brain work that they need an atmosphere well down towards zero in which to be comfortable. And yet this seems to be the theory on which...
...annual football match between Oxford and Cambridge for 1883-84, was won by Oxford. The play of the "Cantabs" was below the standard of last year, and, while each man played for his own glory, the Oxford men played as a team and without selfishness, winning a comparatively easy victory. The score was, Oxford, Three goals and four tries; Cambridge, one goal. Out of the eleven contests played Oxford has won five, Cambridge two, and four have been drawn...
...standard for admission at Princeton has been raised by the addition of a chapter in Hart's Rhetoric, four books of the Anabasis instead of three, the second book of Euclid, and the Quadratics of two unknown quantities...
...value of the modern studies. Some of the textbooks used render a knowledge of German, as a tool in the study of Greek, absolutely necessary, and the advocates of Greek believe that an arrangement can be made by which more prominence may be given to German without lowering the standard of Greek. If Greek is made elective, there is little doubt that the study of the language in the high schools from which the students come will soon be dropped, a knowledge of it not being essential for admission to Harvard; but in few public schools are the facilities...