Word: standardness
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...fencing a touch counts, so in sparring science ought to count, and one heavy blow should not count as much as two well directed light ones. If the judges decide in favor of heavy sparring, then that kind of work comes up from year to year and the standard keeps getting lower, and men who spar well but light will not enter. Such has been the effect of the past decisions of the judges. In order to avoid this, men who are to act as judges should be selected from the undergraduated members of the association, and they should...
Pres. McCosh denies the newspaper report that he is going to retire from Princeton College, and that Dr. Hall of New York will take his place. "In the first place," he said, "we have fifty more students at present than ever before, and our standard of scholarship is higher than ever. The only trouble we have had has been the mischief of a few thoughtless freshmen, and they have been punished, and we do not anticipate any repetition of such occurrences...
...Drury's new brand of cigars improves on acquaintance, and if kept up to its present standard must become popular among the students...
...heard such dismal exhibitions in elocution, and even the recurrence of the finest passages seems to fail to relieve the prosiness of delivery. It would be of considerable advantage to the interest of the course if some means could be taken, during this second half-year, to improve the standard of the reading and not allow the many fine selections to be so mutilated in their delivery as they have been...
...proposal to have an international treaty, fixing a standard for gold and silver coinage, has been refused by England, Germany France, Italy and other powers...