Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last Saturday afternoon, armed with my "H. A. A.", I joined the crowd in what was labelled the cheering section. True, it had the pre-whistle appearance of one: row upon row of potential cheerers, five energetic cheerleaders and a Band which has no equal in the college world. The cheering section of my Alma Mater never numbered over 499 effective voices, but many times it has been heard for five miles. The so-called Harvard cheering section of Saturday must have numbered over 2000; I doubt if it was heard beyond the Yard and after Purdue scored a listener...
...consensus that Leon Trotzky is the most brilliant of all the Soviet leaders, not even excepting Lenin. In stature small and unimpressive and in appearance like a university professor, he is a striking orator with a rare gift for metaphor. As an organizer, he probably has not an equal in all Russia, which is not noted for producing genius of that type. Fearlessness in debate has at once been his strength and his weakness; for by it he conquered and because of it he was conquered...
...Cornell University is the Wilder collection of preserved brains. From their evidence, Dr. James W. Papez, curator, last week concluded scientifically that all physical qualities, such as mass, formation, wrinkles, surface area, prove the female organ equal to the male. Chief among the exhibits in favor of women was the organ of Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener, ardent feminist but reasonable debater. Live, she had sought to prove such equality in a book, Sex in Brain. Dead (in 1925), she had willed her brain as mute, tangible evidence to clinch the argument. In the Wilder collection last week, no brain...
...well-known eccentricities, make their pretty eyes look deep and sympathetic when he comes to the point of his discourse. Thus do the wily coeds, whose actual intelligence measures but 25 on a scale of 100, compensate for a ten-point deficiency in intellect, and extract grades equal to those attained by charmless male students whose measure of intelligence on the same scale is 35. Authority for this condition is Dr. George Thomas, president of the University of Utah, who lately cautioned his faculty members to guard against such insidious influence, prevalent in most co-educational institutions...
...Muehsam of Berlin was the finest private collection in the world. Last week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Manhattan, and the Chicago Art Institute announced that they had jointly purchased Dr. Muehsam's collection. When German experts have impartially divided the pieces into two equal parts, all will be shipped...