Word: equal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...society whose doors are closed against all who do not prove their right to admission. It is evidence that America feels the need of an aristocracy, and that she can afford to support one; and any country which cannot is too poor a relation to be admitted on equal terms into the great family of nations...
That this is in a measure true can hardly be denied. A man of taste and fortune cannot busy himself much with the affairs of the counting-house without developing the prosaic and matter-of-fact side of his character to a disproportionate extent, and meeting on terms, perforce equal, hundreds of people whom his self-respect and pride will permit him to regard with nothing but contempt. The degradation involved in a peaceful struggle for dollars and cents with your fellow-man is, however, hardly equal to the humiliation of a life-long squabble with your butcher and your...
...buildings would be improved, and it seems remarkable that nothing has ever been done about it. We remember distinctly the delightful sensation of surprise which we experienced last fall on seeing the walks covered with tiles. When we revisit these scenes after another vacation may we gaze with equal delight upon ivies and woodbines creeping upwards over the rugged walls of our buildings...
...recitation; while attendance on the "B" should be compulsory, and the recitation marks averaged with the marks of the monthly examinations. Those who preferred to be marked on recitations could remain in "B" divisions. The examinations should count as a certain number of recitations, say an hour examination equal to three recitations; a two-hour examination to six, and a three-hour to nine, recitations...