Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year is experienced by the Oxford freshmen, as falls to the lot of the man who makes his entry into the college life of Harvard for the first time. In the following article from the Oxford and Cambridge undergraduate's Journal will be found many incidents which find their counterpart at our own university. "One touch of nature makes the world kin," and our students will fully appreciate the pathos of the account of the English undergraduate's struggle with the haughty goody, anglice, "bed-make...
...Yale shell from Waters will be the counterpart of ours...
London Truth furnishes a counterpart to an Oxford story of a solicitor, who, in trying for a degree in law, was "plucked" upon a text-book of which he was himself the author, as follows: "Two of the disappointed candidates at a recent examination for admission to the bar are men who have already attained eminence at the Indian bar, where the practice is substantially the same as in England, and where the standard of the bar is notoriously but little inferior. One of these gentlemen has for some years had a professional income of pound15,000 per annum...