Word: equality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first game was played on Holmes Field at Cambridge, April 28, 1877. In the previous fall rugby football was introduced at Princeton, and in order that she might cope with Harvard on more equal terms she asked postponement of the game until spring. Only four days before her game with Yale did Princeton secure from Harvard two rugby footballs, and until the Yale practice no Princetonian knew whether they should be kicked from the end or the side. Yale won the game--two goals to none...
Opposed are eleven other men, differing in that they lack that confidence to be derived from gruelling games with teams of equal weight and skill. In many ways Harvard may be Brown's equal, but we must admit that so far we have met no eleven sufficiently powerful to cope with either our attack or defence. Here surely is a weakness...
...that no sighting right or left is necessary to hit it. And, anyway, there was no resistance, for the Turks went away, leaving their banner flying and the Italians firing. A war with the forces of Turks in Tripoli would be a force if both armies were on an equal footing, but the control of necessary supplies by the Turkish army renders matters dangerous for the Italians. The terrible heat and sand storms of the desert, and the fierce Arab tribes are other dangers which Italy must pass in order to penetrate the country...
Freshmen are reminded that inasmuch as this meet is handicap, they will be on equal standing with the University competitors...
...make a similar gift covering the industrial arts of these two provinces. The whole collection, which is now being prepared under the direction of Professor Clemen, will contain some 20 larger and 30 to 40 smaller objects, and will be both in size and in intrinsic value fully equal to the gifts of the German emperor, which gave to the Museum its first great impetus some ten years...