Word: standard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ninety board assumes control of the paper it will be their earnest aim to follow the example of the preceding board and maintain the present high standard of the CRIMSON, and by further improvements, as far as is in their power, to make it all that it should be as the college daily...
...revealed by statistics, says that the present stages towards professional life are too circuitous and slow. Harvard has her choice of resisting this spirit on the ground that it is too practical, money-serving, and unprogressive, or of bowing to the necessities of the situation, lowering her standard for the first degree and then proving her devotion to learning by making her opportunities for advanced and graduate work richer and wider than they have ever been before. If she does the former college men will grow to be fewer and fewer in proportion to the population. If she does...
...John is questioned about himself by the Jewish priests. He answers, "There standeth one among you whom ye know not." In our minds "education" means the training of our intellects or hearts to some high and noble ideal. We often succeed, in a partial degree, in gaining this high standard. We obtain the wealth for which we are striving, the power, and perhaps the honor, but seldom it is that we devote thest attainments to other than selfish purposes. We are neglectful of the welfare of the world although "there standeth one" among us continually to remind...
...verses of this number are not of a high standard. The second piece is a good take-off on the first as well on "nine-tenths of our poetry." The number closes with the usual book reviews and "The Advocate's Brief...
...seventh volume is lamentably weak in verse. The February number does not contain a line of poetry. While we regret the absence of verse, we accept it as evidence that the Monthly intends to keep its standard high and to reject contributions which are not worthy of publication...