Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...management of the club, to which the president makes reply on the opposite page. Beyond the newspaper reading-room is the debating-hall, which was greatly enlarged last summer. A large number of the men who go to Oxford expect to enter public life, for which we have no counterpart in our "politics"; they come up Liberals or Conservatives by education, and the Union debates are, for the most part, on political questions, - live questions, in which all have some concern; hence the debates have an interest and excitement unknown with us. Upstairs is the library, which is now very...
...college life is a caricature of the social life of the world. The candidate for social position dares not offend the society which confers that position; so he becomes a lackey dressed in the livery of the society, the exact counterpart of every other society man in both dress and opinions. There is Snobling, for instance, - a cigarette-rolling Sophomore. Ask him what he thinks about admitting women to Harvard. I can vouch that his answer will...
...agree with you when you assert that these contrivances necessarily bring out the pluck and endurance of a crew, although they may so do. However subtly a rowing-weight may be constructed, it can never be the counterpart of boat and oar. I therefore wished to suggest to the captains of crews to consider whether the "form" acquired at these machines would be deleterious to the "form" on the river; whether their effects would be depressing; and to pay due attention to such questions as the invigorating influence of timely repose...