Word: standard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Flershem '98, leader. The club dinner for regular members and '97 men who have played on the club will be held at the Thorndike, March 22. More men are on the club now than there have been before and their work is fully up to the standard. The club will give a concert this evening at Watertown, and among others during the spring it will play at the Massachusetts Yacht Club, April...
...such a terrible murder and such a disgrace to civilization, why not suppress everything about it? Why not suppress some of the scandalous debates of the U. S. Senate or the House? Surely these debates are a discredit to the nation, and whoever reports them is, according to the standard of the writer in the Graduates' Magazine, "plying a shameless trade," and is disloyal to his country. I can say why it is not best to suppress them: it is because a good tempering influence is exerted by these very reports...
SCRIBNER'S beautiful edition of Kipling. Their celebrated Thistle edition of Stevenson-Houghton, Mifflin and Co.'s superb edition of Hawthorne, Lowell, Emerson, Holmes, Whittier and Longfellow; (350 choice engravings; the only illustrated edition published). Villon's edition of the Arabian Nights (unexpurgated). very rare. All the standard authors in all bindings, all editions. All books or sets published, complete sets delivered at once and payments of $1 or $2 per mo., entirely satisfactory. Lowest cash prices guaranteed. Address, X, CRIMSON office...
...hope that at the second of the shot putting contests to be held this afternoon at three o'clock, there will be as general an interest shown as there was at the first. Then, though the standard of performance was not especially high, several men competed who, with steady practice, can materially strengthen the Mott Haven team this spring, and especially in the dual games. Although these competitions are of benefit in arrousing interest in shot putting, those who do poorly in them at first have no reason for discouragement. After all, as past experience shows, only steady, careful practice...
SCRIBNER'S beautiful edition of Kipling. Their celebrated Thistle edition of Stevenson-Houghton, Mifflin and Co.'s superb edition of Hawthorne, Lowell, Emerson, Holmes, Whittier and Longfellow; (350 choice engravings; the only illustrated edition published). Villon's edition of the Arabian Nights (unexpurgated) very rare. All the standard authors in all bindings, all editions. All books or sets published, complete sets delivered at once and payments of $1 or $2 per mo., entirely satisfactory. Lowest cash prices guaranteed. Address, X, CRIMSON office...