Word: either
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...what does this advantage arise from? Either from his superior learning or his narrow means. It must be the latter. It cannot be his superior learning, for since competition is not free, how do we know that the learning is superior? Any method of assigning scholarships except according to scholarly merit cannot fail of being demoralizing in proportion as the assignment is influenced by a regard for the circumstances of the applicant. It may be said that a change in the present system would have no different result, that the same men would take the scholarships as take them...
...system, and you reply by asking me for money to perpetuate that system. Though I will not accept the principle that advice must be backed up by dollars and cents, and though I am not now in a position to subscribe to any cause, should the boating men decide either to send one of their number to England, or to import an Englishman of the Sadler-Kelly stamp (ex-champions), I would gladly make a sacrifice to contribute...
...persons wishing to join the Holyoke Club may do so by leaving their names with either the secretary, Mr. F. Donaldson, 43 Holyoke House, or with the captain, Mr. W. M. LeMoyne, 42 Holyoke House...
...second class, the Ungulates, comprises all those who, having squeaking or heavy shoes, seem to be ever desirous of making all the noise possible either with said shoes or else by keeping up a constant buzzing with their tongues, like flies in fly-time. Their answers to all questions are, invariably, "You must use your own judgment about it," or, "What! you don't mean to say you don't know that? well, I am surprised!" And so they play their part...
...find his idea of it to be pretty much as follows: Strictly voluntary attendance at all college exercises is the most prominent feature. The morning is spent in sleep and in breakfasting luxuriously in one's room, after which the real business of the day begins. This is either rowing on the river, or a long excursion into the country with a tandem, returning in time for dinner, which, dressed by a French chef, and washed down with the choicest wines, is eaten at the rooms of some hospitable friend. After an evening spent in playing billiards or in other...