Word: standard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most successful years during the past summer. The attendance was the largest on record. There were over 700 students in the Cambridge Department, not including those who attended the courses on Medicine and Dentistry in Boston,. In general the students were very enthusiastic, and a high standard was maintained in the courses...
...nine will play its second game with Brown at Providence this afternoon. The team will take lunch shortly before noon, and leave on the one o'clock train from the Park Square Station. For Brown the game today will end a season which, owing to her high standard of play, has practically placed her on an equality with Princeton. Although Brown defeated U. of P. Monday by a score of 16-0, no comparison can be made between this score and the 'Varsity's close victory on Saturday by a score of 2 to 1 as in the Brown game...
...English 30 together, with the University Debating Club, would not leave a sufficiently efficient margin of debaters in the Junior class to warrant a class club, and that a Junior Club which was only a moderate success, in not keeping the under class clubs up to a sufficiently high standard, would do more harm than good...
...current number of the Lampoon is easily up to the standard. The centre page drawing, although evidently intended to be taken seriously is yet very funny from the artist's curious conception of horses and his grotesque style. The best individual picture are a halfpage drawing representing an optical illusion, and two small sketches illustrating rather time worn jokes. Contrary to custom, the long articles are easily the best reading of this number. Deserving of especial mention is a clever take-off on a recent Advocate story, and a pretended unpublished letter written by Li Hung Chang...
Though this year's team could not come up to last year's standard of seven victories and no defeats, considering the amount of absolutely green material the eleven succeeded remarkably well. While the team never failed to make good scores, its main strength lay in the bowlers and the fielders. Both Hastings and Ward bowled very effectively, and Carleton would have proved as formidable had it not been for a strained side. Hastings got the best bowling average for the season, 6.3; R. H. Carleton got the best batting average of the eleven, 17.7, and by the average...