Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rhoads, of Philadelphia, was last Saturday elected President of Bryn Mawr College by the trustees, and Martha Carey Thomas, of Baltimore, Dean of the faculty and Professor of English. The institution will be opened to students in the autumn of 1885, and will adopt standards of admission and instruction equal to the highest in existing colleges for women in this country. Dr. Rhoads was named in the will of Dr. Joseph W. Taylor, the founder of Bryn Mawr College, as one of its trustees, and still holds that position. Martha Carey Thomas holds the degree of Ph. D. summa...
...hoped that this body of resident graduates will be very large or exercise a marked influence upon the spirit of the college until the resources of the university both physical and intellectual are largely increased,-until Harvard can offer instruction in purely liberal and humanitarian studies equal to the best obtainable in Europe; until she can rival Oxford or Beriin or Paris...
...apparent to all observers that it is not fair treatment of the winner of the first bout. Not one sparer in a hundred possesses the requisite endurance to do himself justice in a second match after he has just boxed three hotly contested rounds with an opponent of equal merit with himself. A notable instance of a similar nature occurred at a winter meeting two years ago, at which the winner of the first bout, one of the best boxers that Harvard has ever produced, being entered also to wrestle, and somewhat exhausted, was incapable of competing again...
...campaign which ended in the surrender of Vicksburg and Port Hudson was one which called for generalship, as the forces on each side were about equal. The result proved that General Grant was more worthy of fame than his Confederate antagonist, General Pemberton. That the delay in taking these cities was so great is not due to any superiority of force or ability displayed by the Confederates, but because Nature stood in the way. The possession of Vicksburg was of the greatest importance to both sides. Situated on a series of high bluffs at a sharp bend in the Mississippi...
Second bout. A second time the manoeuvering and rests continued. Both seemed equally skillful in coming down back up. Coolidge obtained a fair under hold, but the fall was skillfully eluded by Hughes. So long were they, that Mr. Gasture had to give them an equal hold. Coolidge then threw Hughes by one of the squarest falls ever seen in the gymnasium...