Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nichols '26. This committee will subsequently appoint six or seven other representative undergraduates not members of the Student Council to assist them in their investigation and to confer with them upon their report; which, it is expected, will be presented next spring, and which will equal in scope and importance the report recently made by a committee of Dartmouth undergraduates upon the educational problems of that institution...
...Scandinavians Prince William, younger son of King Gustavus of Sweden, is known as an inquiring traveler, whose wanderings almost equal those of Edward of Wales, and as a poet-playwright of some note...
Certainly no baseball pitcher, perhaps no player in any game, had a triumph equal to Mathewson's in the famed World Series of 1905. Plank, the mainstay of the Athletics, was a fine pitcher, heady and fast, but he could be scored on, Mathewson could not. There were other men with the Giants besides Mathewson; occasionally they came up to bat; they did not have much else to do. While the enormous crowds shouted themselves into a frenzy, and small boys and statesmen muttered his name in their sleep-a name heard round far more of the world than...
...view, the college board originally offered the New Plan with the purpose of displacing the Old Plan entirely: but if, as the experience of the College indicates, the process is rapidly being reversed, it is imperative to increase the difficulties of the Old Plan until they at-least equal those of the new. Such a change would benefit both the college Loard in reducing the complexity of their business, and, the College in providing it with a more accurate sifter of scholastic abilities. If candidates still referred the plodding preparation con the Old Plan, it would be incumbent...
...Great as the danger is of constructing the tutorial conference on the pattern of class instruction, there is equal risk of over-emphasizing the difference between the two. You do not overcome the defects of mere efficiency by mere inefficiency. To light a cigarette, stretch one's legs on the desk, and indulge in aimless, endless talk leads to wisdom no more than does the mechanical taking of notes or the frenzied cramming for an examination. We should watch lest the tutorial method degrade the process of learning into a form of intellectual journalism; in practice it should involve serious...