Word: standards
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...degrees of Master of Arts is given to properly qualified students for a year of advanced study completed with distinction, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy is awarded, not upon the completion of a specified curriculum, but upon the reaching of a standard of attainment, tested by examinations and the preparation of an original piece of investigation in the form of a thesis. The minimum period of study for this degree is two years, but students commonly spend from three to five years...
...Harvard, minor sports have been most unsuccessful for the past decade. There has been little enthusiasm, few candidates and, on the whole, poor candidates and, onn the whole, poor teams, far below the standard set by her major sport teams. Yale and Princeton have been winning with remarkable regularity. So it has been suggested that a Minor Sports Club be formed, membership being awarded to wearers of minor sports insignia. "The chief gain," to quote the Crimson, "would be a coordination to the end that all lesser sports be pervaded with a spirit now very much lacking...
There is a mother-in-law, an individual Watch and Ward Society, a vigorous, tyrannical, assertive, irritating person who spoils the heaven of the "Pagans" by intruding the standard of "middle class morality." As this avowed champion of virtue, Alice Fischer made the wife of the inventor of "McKnight's pneumatic garter" thoroughly detestable. Bill Pratt, orderly, nurse and friend; Doctor Gregory and James Barlow, devoted comrades of Northcote, were ably portrayed by Harold Vermilyee, David Glassford and Frederic Burt...
...other elevens are well above the last few years' standard of preliminary games...
Sixty members of the Glee Club will sing in Aeolian Hall, New York, tomorrow afternoon at 3.30. This will mark the first appearance of the club in New York since it broke away from the old Musical Clubs and established itself on a standard of program unequalled by any male chorus in this country...