Word: standardness
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Elaborate preparations have been made for furnishing standard time from the Harvard Observatory for use in the observations of the transit of Venus tomorrow...
...honorable notice of this prominence. In one way the existence of these societies is to be deplored. The membership list is considered to represent the leaders in the special department to which the society is devoted; and such an arbitrary ranking as the society makes creates a somewhat false standard of merit, and is likely to do injustice to those who have been left out of the society by mere chance or carelessness or by the prejudice of individual members...
Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera, "Iolanthe," was produced at the Savoy Theatre, London, Saturday evening, and at the Standard Theatre, New York, and was pronounced a success in both places...
...loss of several of their best men ought not to shake all this confidence and produce a corresponding depression, as it seems to have done. There is yet time to fill the vacant places with strong players out of the large list of candidates, who can again raise the standard and bring the class the desired victory. The college is watching with much interest to see this brace among the freshmen, and they are willing and anxious to lend encouragement to faithful work, and hearty congratulations in case of a well-earned victory. Now is your chance, '86, you will...
...Yale News, standard authority in sporting matters, reports that "the odds on the foot-ball championship have taken quite a change. They now stand 4 to 5 against Yale, even money against Princeton, 8 to 1 against Harvard and Columbia not quoted...