Word: standardness
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...just crush the guilty one: "To be sure, the reported writer is a Prep.; but that is a fact of which the editors of the HARVARD HERALD are, presumably, not aware, and so Vassar College gets the credit of the production, and Vassar girls are judged by its standard. If our own girls will spread abroad such stories concerning the college, we cannot be surprised at the perpetuity of the vulgar banister, chewing-gum, and other like things...
...this deterioration: Americans eat and drink too much; they gamble in stocks and grain as well as at the gaming-table: they are a homeless people, nearly one-half of these living in boarding houses; disappointed ambition is another cause of decay, and finally there is a false standard of success - money...
...Times says of the Princetons in their first game with the Metropolitans that "their fielding was not up to the standard of Harvard or Yale, but their batting qualities are equally as good, if not better, than either of those clubs." Several hundred Princeton men accompanied their nine. The Times complains of their partiality in applauding only their own men, and letting brilliant plays on the other side go unnoticed. Hopkins of Yale, the Times thinks, carried off the honors in their game with the Alaskas...
...they say, was founded for the medical education of men, and has been endowed and sustained for that purpose-a purpose which would be seriously perverted if the school were changed into an institution for the education of both sexes alike. The faculty has been trying to raise the standard of medical education, and has already made it higher than anywhere else in America. The examinations are harder, and the course of instruction is more complete and thorough and more distinctly graded than in any other university in the country. Beginning with anatomy, the course ends in the third...
...order to compete with the team Harvard has in the field this season. The batting, however, of the Yale men was a trifle better than that of Harvard." Of their second game in New York, the Times says that the nine did not play up to their usual standard...