Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students here, excluding the class that come merely for amusement, come here to have their opinions formed and widened on all subjects to be made men in a word. If this is true, the Union can not at present be a great debating society, nor can it hope to equal the Oxford and Cambridge Unions or English mock parliaments. The second reason is that but few men take an interest in the Union, especially among the class of men known as "society men." This is just what ought not to be, for from the society men-the moneyed gentlemen...
Yale is cautioning her freshmen to guard as zealously against a tie in this fall's game as they would against defeat, so '87 must not only strive to equal the record of last year's team, but to surpass it. With the good material already so abundantly furnished there is no reason that they should not do this if they will settle down to the hard work which can reasonably be expected of them. Such a warning should be unnecessary to a majority of the candidates, for many of them have previously met college teams during their practice...
...same general lines are followed out as in the national parliament, and the daily doings are closely scanned, and a clear knowledge gained of the drift of politics, so that when elections come the situation is grasped with acuteness and intelligence that finds no equal the world over...
...expenses of the room, while at Harvard it would probably be impossible to obtain from the college more than the mere use of a room without light or heat This fact, however, should be small reason to explain the non-existence at Harvard of an institution fully equal in all its conveniences and appointments to that at Yale. If a sufficient number will grant their support there is no doubt but that the directors of the reading-room will find it possible to secure a room, perhaps in Dane Hall, which can beheated at a moderate cost, and which...
...drained off. But instead of this being done a layer of small rocks and gravel was laid, and this covered with a layer of ashes and fine gravel. Of course this would tend to form a concrete and become very hard and would be in no respect equal to the former as a running track. It was all due to a misunderstanding, for the substances which the contractors put on are worth several times that which the contract specified. Accordingly the top is now being removed and will be replaced by the specified layers. Notwithstanding the delay, in three weeks...