Word: standardness
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...must be very trying to the government of a University like Harvard, that has already been attempting with its limited means to advance the standard of education, to see a large sum given to found a new college. The older Universities would, on many accounts, be far more able to furnish post-graduate instruction of a high grade, for their corporations are more experienced, their reputation is sufficient to attract professors and students, and they have a large body of undergraduates who would spur on the resident graduates to make good progress. Still, competent judges think that "Hopkins University" will...
...beginning to be discountenanced. When a man has been a few years out of college, he changes his mind and thinks that public performances by students ought not to be allowed. We are younger, and many of us do not, perhaps, care so much about maintaining a very high standard of dignity, provided we can amuse ourselves and our friends; but it is necessary, and indeed expedient, to show some regard for the expressed opinion of the alumni. They are expected to take an active interest in the management of the University, and therefore, if a large number of them...
...miserable gingerbread covers put on the standard books so temptingly displayed in the dollar stores surely add nothing to their value. In England the same books in plain paper covers sell at about one fourth the price. Few college men there are but would like to read and own many capital books, but are deterred from buying by the $2.50 regular price, even with a mysterious "trade," "cash," and "personal favor" deduction reducing...
...newspaper may be a "mighty engine" and "a great cultivator," but Americans want something more than ephemeral newspaper literature, and the time has come for cheap books. When the best works of the standard authors can be bought at moderate prices, men of moderate means will not be slow in buying freely...
...celebrated that it would be invidious to particularize. In the year 1870 a new departure took place. The established reputation of the school, its increased revenues, and the very general increase of requirement for admission to the Bar in the United States, warranted and demanded an advance in the standard. To accomplish this so desirable a result has been the object of the radical and much criticised reforms in the school during the last four years. The following attempt to state the new theory, and compare it with the old system, and from them suggest a third, is made without...