Word: standardness
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...musical society, the Mixolydian Quintette Club, has been organized for the purpose of playing sacred music. The repertoire of the society consists already of Mendelssohn's 42d Psalm, Farmer's Mass, Haydn's III., VII., and IX. Masses, and other standard works...
...desires to learn (pleasing hypothesis!) all he can about it; for this purpose he wants to buy books relating to it for his own private library, and finds a public library of great value when desiring to consult books on other subjects. The large libraries furnish us with the standard authors, and many books we like well enough to read once, but would never think of buying...
...that the project is fairly started, there may be some men desirous of entering the society who are, as yet, not sufficiently good players to be admitted. The standard of ability is likely to be high, and practice is, of course, the best preparation; but books, like Howard Staunton's Chess-player's Hand-Book, and other works by the same author, will be found helpful. We would not express the least doubt of the value of this society, but would like to suggest as an interesting question for thought: "Can the faculties called forth and stimulated by chess-playing...
...exception of a fine stand for 27, made by Dwight, '74, who took the first over and saw eight wickets fall before his own. Mr. Tilden's hitting was also effective. The fielding of our Eleven, too, with the exception of Garrett and Bruce, was far below its standard, although Withington's long stopping was good. The bowling was good while the men were fresh, but as the innings lengthened the number of wides rapidly increased...
...acknowledge that these high desires lead up to something very like "the possession of a good conscience and the contemplation of virtue," which our author affects so greatly to despise? "Affects," I say, for he does not believe the barren creed he professes; he holds to a higher standard for life than he admits; he betrays himself when he speaks of "Thackeray's Warrington, - to our mind, in spite of his failure, the noblest man in English fiction...