Word: standard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...number of books, more students have used this library than Widener itself. In addition to files of current periodicals and of all publications connected with the University, the Union library furnishes many text books, reference, and reading books used in various courses, and a large collection of standard literature...
...members of the Administrative Board for the year 1916-1917 were Professor C. P. Parker, Regent Brandegee, Professors Ward, Chase, Lamb, Lee and the Dean. Professor Parker died on December 2, 1916, and the Administrative Board thereby lost a member whose fidelity and effectiveness were a standard for his colleagues...
...informal games will be with nearby service, professional and amateur teams. Just when inter-battalion contests will be started is uncertain, but they will be largely for the men who are not up to the standard of the two first teams. A 1921 inter-dormitory schedule of approximately nine games, similar to those of 1915 and 1916, will be started soon after the first Freshman squad is chosen...
...help the country. I think that there might be formed a military college with a three-years' course on the same general lines as West Point. I would admit boys of the age of sixteen, physically fit, without examination, merely dropping them on their failing to maintain a proper standard in their stud- ies. During their three years in college I should have them under strict military discipline, with a prescribed military course, lectures in the morning, practical work in the afternoon. At the age of nineteen, on completing their studies, they should be well prepared for a second lieutenant...
Originally there were 5000 men enrolled in the Second Naval District Service, but owing to the high standard of the training, the district has been drawn upon heavily to supply men for various other branches of the naval service. Those interested in wireless telegraphy have been sent to the Radio School established at the University; other men have been ordered to the Merchant Marin; still others to Annapolis or to the Ensign School at the University for training for officers' commissions...