Word: standard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...success of their magazine during the first year of its existence. The Review was started for the purpose of extending the influence of the Law School and of affording a medium through which the work of the professors and students might be given to the public. The standard was set very high at the beginning, and it has been well maintained, as those who have read the numbers of the Review can testify. The editors promise to continue the same policy in the future and the prospects for the next volume shows that the promise will be fulfilled. The earnest...
...whole, the meetings this year have not been up to the standard of former years; not, we think, because of any negligence on the part of the stewards of the Athletic Association, but rather because of the lack of interest of men in college. The enthusiasm that was expressed during the football season seems to have exhausted men's energies for any thing else. The efforts made by the Athletic Association to arouse interest in the weekly contests they arranged, met with feeble response and were abandoned. It is this lack of interest that has made the meetings this year...
...rehearsals which the Glee Club has a week, one is generally under Mr. Locke's direction, while the regualr leader of the club has charge of the other. This scheme has proved exceedingly beneficial to the club and account not a little for its present high standard. Would not an analogous plan in regard the Pierian Sodality prove beneficial to it also, and tend to raise the standard of our college orchestra? The writer has nothing but praise for the present conductor and congratulates the society in having one so fitted for the place; at the same time...
...other such like classical author at sight and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose, and decline perfectly the paradigms of names and verbs in the Greek tongue. Let him then and not before be capable of admission into the college." It was certainly a higher standard in the classics than we have at the present day, for there are very few who can speak and write Latin with ease and correctness. Weekly declamation were held on Fridays during the college year, in the College Hall, also disputations at which either the president or one of the fellows...
...building will be heated by steam from the college heating apparatus, but the steam pipes will not be arranged as radiators but will encircle the walls of each room. A large room in the tower is to be used as a technical library and will contain all the standard works. The general store-room for the apparatus is in the basement and is connected with the laboratories by a "lift" No pains have been spared in the work and the building when finished will be one of the best of its kind in the country...