Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...decidedly lowered. By force of circumstances we happen to be isolated from all the other colleges where athletic games are indulged in. For this reason we are dependent upon the various athletic organizations in the neighborhood for that practice, without which we cannot compete with other colleges on equal terms...
...distance to be rowed from four to three miles was needless. The reason for the change will appear to boating men insufficient. The crews which enter a four-mile race are composed of men, who, in the preliminary class-races and in the preliminary training, have shown themselves equal to the trial. For a contest between the picked men of two colleges, a four-mile course is better than a three-mile course. The stroke rowed in such a race is less exhausting, and in every way is healthier than the stroke adopted for a three-mile course...
...long as graduates from different colleges are allowed to go into the world to compete for the prizes of life, "the conditions under which' they compete should be as hearty equal as possible. It is manifest that the conditions could not be equal' while the colleges differ in respect to the number and wealth of their students, the worth of their property, and the value of their foundation." Therefore...
...doubt the intention of the faculty that the several elective courses shall involve equal amounts of study; but they have discovered no adequate means of establishing and preserving an equality. The standard of value now used is the number of hours of instruction per week; the amount of work to be required of the student is left to the discretion of the individual instructors. They are of course not perfectly informed concerning the amount and thoroughness of work done in other electives; they must depend largely on what they observe in their own sections. No instructor would wish to condition...
...action. If five of the colleges most nearly associated with Priceton's athletic interests concur, the resolutions will be adopted. A member of the faculty committee said that the object was to eliminate the professional standard from college athletics and to put the men of all colleges on an equal basis. Harvard, he said, would pass the resolutions any way, but Princeton would not concur on that account or on account of the concurrence of five of the smaller colleges. "Yale," said the gentleman, "did not act fairly in not attending the convention. It would not have compromised...