Word: standard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...result of this experiment in the past year cannot fail to be instructive. One of this Governing Committee was a graduate of 20 years standing, two of ten and the other rowed recently. They were all rowing men, and when in college had proved themselves good oarsmen, but the standard of rowing, like everything else, is continually improving, and to keep up with this advance a man must not only follow the improvements most carefully, but it is so necessary for him to test each of them practically, for rowing, far more than any other sport is learned...
...atmosphere that surrounds the university is something of which we are all proud; it raises the grade of every school in the town; it increases the intelligence of every man, woman and child; and it adds to the money value of our real estate, to descend from the higher standard of worth to the lower...
...beat Yale in the contest to-day. Both the fielding and the batting of the nine has improved greatly with its constant practice, and the steady work of the battery in all the games leaves nothing to be asked from that quarter except that it maintain its excellent standard. When we add to these indications in Harvard's favor the fact that the nine is to play on its own field, supported by a large body of men, the hopes for victory are certainly bright...
...standard for passing examinations at Cornell has been raised from 60 to 70 per cent...
...obtaining the highest score of the day, a well earned 43. Dutton supplemented this score by a careful twenty, and Bixby and and Hubbard aided towards making the creditable total of 96. The bowling of the Harvard team was on the whole not up to last year's standard, but the fielding kept well up to the mark...