Word: standard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...women are identical with the Harvard entrance examinations for men, are held in New York at the same time with the latter, and both are presided over by the same professor from Harvard. To the private schools of New York they are of great value as forming a standard by which the quality of the teaching may be teased, for, even when candidates fail, the failure gives them and the instructors a clearer idea of the meaning of "accurate" work, and already more than one school has acknowledged its indebtedness to them as having been the means of improvising...
...paper through most of their college course and who have just left us. Fulsome praise is ever out of place and sounds conimonplace. But imitation is the sincerest flattery and it shall be the earnest endeavor of the present board to keep the paper up to the standard set by our predecessors. The pleasant memory they have left with us will go far towards had ping us to shoulder the responsibility and to work with zeal for the welfare of the paper...
...that inherent power of resisting evil which He observed other men did not possess. The speaker cautioned his hearers to beware of turning the powers they did possess to base ends, but to devote them to the development of their characters. The music was fully up to its usual standard of excellence. The choir rendered the following selections: "The King of Love," by Dvkes; "I will Sing of Thy Power," by Sullivan, and Baraby's "Nunc Dimittis...
...great variety of athletic sports flourish at the University and are pursued with enthusiasm. President Eliot believes that the best way to raise the standard of the athletic contests is to reduce the number of competitions...
...reformer. And His subsequent work proved Him to be no inconsequential dreamer, but a practical leader of men." Dr. Hale preached about twenty minutes with considerable fervor, and his hearers were benefited by his earnest words. The music for the evening was up to the usual standard of excellence. The anthems were "I will sing of Thy Power," by Sullivan, and Novello's "Incline Thy Ear." In the absence of Mr. Locke, Mr. L. S. Thompson played the voluntary and postludium, both of which were taken from Merkell...