Word: equal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tolerated in Harvard journalism. We could readily give illustrations of this fact, but it would be useless; all who have read co-educational college papers must have noticed it. We do not wish to be rude, but with all due respect for girls who seek an education equal to that furnished their more privileged brothers, we say bluntly to the doctor of divinity that we do not believe co-education is the good that its advocates claim...
...sounds well, we confess, to have it said that the authorities of a university acknowledge women the intellectual equals of men, and admit them to equal privileges and rights; but there are many beautiful abstractions which are found woefully deficient when put into practice. Co-education is one of them. While its effects upon young men are perhaps not very pernicious, there are not many girls who would derive advantageous results from it. Experience has shown this to be true, and all the fine-worded, high-flown resolutions and sermons cannot make it otherwise. Doubtless a matured woman with mind...
That the penalty inflicted on the steward be a deduction from his salary equal to the amount by which the board shall have exceeded $4.25 per week...
There is an extraordinary diversity among Harvard instructors in their methods of marking examination papers, and in several instances they have felt impelled to declare their views and systems. One instructor has said, "60 per cent. is a very good mark," while another of equal authority and prominence has declared that 70 per cent. is merely "a defensive mark," and supports his view by giving almost all the men in his elective who do any work a mark above that limit, such marks being exceptional in the other course. Between these range numerous other instructors' views which are diverse...
Newton Case, of Hartford, Ct., has offered to give $100,000 for the library for the Hartford Theological Seminary provided an equal amount is raised...