Word: standard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question of race equality as put forward at the peace conference involves not only the race question proper, but also the economic question of immigration of a type of labor which does not strive for a standard of living equal to our own. Japan, with reference to the Chinese recognizes this economic phase of the question. Only recently a large number of Chinese laborers who were brought to Japan under contract to work for fifty cents a day for three years were sent home at a cost of twenty-five thousand dollars to the Japanese company that imported the Chinese...
...maintain a curriculum in harmony with the times requires constant attention to changing conditions. Obviously no system is permanently good. Something corresponding to a standard has been established by the universities and colleges, but a departure from this "standard" should not be condemned because it is a departure. When, for instance, some institution, as Yale, makes a change in her system, as she did by abolishing a four-year Latin training for entrance, the only telling argument which can be brought against it is to show that the plan is out of harmony with the times...
...still exists among the undergraduates and instructors. The genuine Magazine contains better fiction and as good verse as the College has been offered in a long time. It has the ear-marks of a successful literary paper. But the editors, who fail to make themselves known, have lowered their standard in the story entitled. "The New Romance" to a most unworthy level. They must avoid such crudities if they aspire truly to represent the University...
...foreign student has difficulty in understanding his lecturers; yet he must be graded according to the American standard. He is practically cut off from association with American students, and consequently from any advantageous opportunity to change his reading knowledge of English into the necessary speaking and hearing knowledge. Thus the chief obstacle between the interesting in body of foreign students and the American students, who really feel very friendly toward them, is simply this ignorance of spoken English on the part of foreigners and this lack of continuous helpful association between...
...power on earth could erect the standard of infallibility in political opinion; there is no being that would resort to it with more eagerness than myself, . . . . But as I have found no better guide hitherto, than upright intentions and close investigation, I shall adhere to those maxims...