Word: standardness
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...Globe considers that the results of the recent co-operation of the New England colleges towards equalizing their standard of admission has resulted so that "Exeter, for instance, long a Harvard school, is sending many boys to Yale. Phillips Andover. hitherto a Yale school, this year sends five boys to Harvard, and is likely to send fifteen next year. Williston, the largest feeder of Yale, last year sent more boys to Cambridge than to New Haven. It is understood that the destruction of the individual character of these schools is entirely in accord with the wishes of their officers...
Complaint is made that the German universities are overcrowded. During the season of financial speculation that followed the French war, the attendance seriously fell off. But now students are coming in larger numbers than ever, with the result, it is said, of injuring productive industries and depreciating the standard of examinations...
...your yesterday's issue? In expressing contentment with these measures, I do not think that I am altogether alone among the students of Harvard College. There are many, I think, who have noticed with regret the growing tendency of our college athletics to approach the standard of professionalism. These new regulations, it seems to me, will tend to check this tendency at Harvard, and if our other colleges join with her in this move, with them also. And if this happens Harvard will not be placed at an unfair disadvantage in her contests with other colleges. But what has seemed...
...that such a man will be very hard to get, and that until he is got Harvard's athletes will be at a great disadvantage at the "intercollegiate athletics games," the committee yet deem it their duty to obtain such a man as a measure which will raise the standard of athletics in the college and in the end prove most advantageous to the success of Harvard athletes. Until such a man is appointed, Dr. Sargent is to take care that no man injures himself in any way by exercise. Under his charge, too, men will be hired...
...programme is made out, and one or two of these essays assigned to each session. The subjects being known beforehand, each member of the society is expected to prepare himself for the discussion which follows the reading. Such subjects as the following are assigned: Value, Banks of Issue, Double Standard, Income Tax, State Ownership of Railways, etc. The student is expected to know, for instance, in the first case, the opinions of all prominent economists in reference to the subject, and their definitions of it. He must be able to give reasons for his own view, accompanied with refutation...