Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Andrew Carnegie, of New York, has just offered $75,000 for the foundation of a library at Radcliffe College, on condition that the college should raise an equal sum of money for the same purpose. Except for this stipulation there are no restrictions on the gift...
Since he was fourteen years old Mr. Gompers has been identified with efforts to organize labor, believing that in unity working men can treat with their employers on a more equal basis. He is responsible more than any one other man for the present strength of labor unions in this country. He is a cigar maker by trade, and was one of the founders of the American Federation of Labor, of which he has been president, with the exception of one year, since 1882. Mr. Gompers is also the author of a number of pamphlets on the labor question...
Plans for the international chess meet are now being drawn up in New York by a committee of graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia. Four boards will probably be played so that each of the American universities may have an equal number of representatives. The American team will play at the rooms of the German Chess Club, New York. The dates have not yet been definitely decided upon but will very probably be Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April...
...second proposition, that the free elective system is unrivalled in the promotion of broad views. As far as it is a question of securing to the student a wide and same view of the world in which he lives, the number of studies which have an equal claim upon his attention are as numerous as the many and diverse activities of our complex modern life. In view of the fairly comparable values of the great number of studies in promoting breadth of view, it is ridiculous to fasten upon any single study or department of study and compel the student...
...February 18 a round robin fencing tournament will be held in the Hemenway Gymnasium for the purpose of selecting men for the University team. Nine teams have already entered, and in order that all the teams may be of equal strength each team will be composed of one experienced and two inexperienced men. Each man will fence all the men on the other teams and the members of the team winning the greatest number of matches will be awarded cups which have been offered by several graduates...