Word: equal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present evils that dishearten the poor undergraduate, such as bad lecturing, bad prescribed reading, and that abomination the "section-man" (!), he has at least one real suggestion-something not very distantly akin to the Oxford tutorial system. Even if treasures shine from the end of the road of scholarship equal to those which beckon men to athletics (to drive home the brilliance of the metaphor), it is extremely doubtful whether many worthy undergraduates will alter their extra-curriculum activities. It seems as if the undergraduate must be brought to know the pleasure of study itself, the actual exhilaration of intellectual...
...second University baseball team defeated the Pilgrims on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon, by the score of 4 to 3. The two teams got about an equal number of hits but the Harvard team were more successful in bunching them...
Such was the vivid description of the start of Saturday's race as seen by one of Boston's news-gatherers. For up-to-date journalism we have seen nothing to equal it and, coming as it does from one of our most accurate journals, we cannot but believe it. We are sorry that our reporter was unable to be present at the race and regret exceedingly that we, therefore, cannot give our readers an account of it this morning...
...complete the fund. The undergraduate contributions will be turned over to this committee as soon as the greater part of the college has contributed. At Dartmouth College over $25,000 was raised among the students, and it is hoped that the contributions of the undergraduates at Harvard will equal this...
...Holmes advocated strongly a workman's compensation act, but did not believe the entire liability should fall on the owner. The suggested remedy was for the state, the owner and the employee to contribute equal amounts for the compensation fund, and to have an equal voice in the administration...