Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON does not need to sermonize on the value of debating to the individual. It is perfectly obvious that a man's ability to kick a football or drive out base hits will be less of an asset to him in after life than the ability to stand on his feet and say something in a clear, convincing manner. The man who goes out for the debating team--and goes out hard, making a study of the question and learning to state his views on it forcefully, will have done as much for himself as the man who tugs...
...that the device carved on one of its gates, "Enter to Grow in Wisdom" is not an idle one, for increased opportunities for such growth are always being added. But President Lowell does not make his report merely a series of verbal boquets. He points out several matters which stand in need of change and improvement...
...result of recent complaints the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa is taking steps to raise its admission requirements. Among the various suggestions for improvement it has been urged that the high-stand men, amounting to ten per cent. of each class be admitted to the society, thus placing the system of election on a purely competitive basis. There are many objections to this plan, however, for if men were chosen at the end of their senior year under this arrangement, there would be no undergraduate chapter, and if at the end of their senior year under this arrangement, there...
...hold flowers, nor yet potations. As decorations they suggest proficiency at golf or the modern dances. But the idea behind them, the spirit which actuates a Yale class to present a loving cup to a Harvard class--or vice versa, more than makes up for their intrinsic uselessness. They stand for courtesy and friendship. Yet the presentation of cups to Yale or Harvard classes should not become a mere custom. A loving cup, given because it is the thing to do or because it is always done is even more worthless than the ordinary variety. With every such presentation there...
...regulation of the Medical School that men who have had two years in College and who satisfy certain requirements, may enter as regular students is not apt to lower the School's standards. The men thus admitted must stand "high in their college work and must make good marks in the Medical School. Now is the time for Freshmen who are contemplating entering the Medical School to find out if they are fitted to enter it after two years in College; and if they are, to arrange their courses so as to satisfy the new requirements of the School, which...