Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...higher branches, especially to graduate students of other colleges, is one of peculiar interest and value. With its magnificent endowment, this institution has been enabled to offer privileges for the study of specialties not strictly professional which no other university of the country has been able to equal. It is very evident that a university on the plan of Harvard, with its comparatively limited funds and with its multifarious schools and extensive academical department, cannot hope to afford such instruction to graduate students of the liberal arts and sciences as Johns Hopkins, with its narrower and more limited range. Therefore...
...default of better. Now that I know how difficult it is to get words, I wish the music had been published earlier, but I have confidence in the musical ability of our class and I think that the rehearsals which we shall have next week will equal in number, and very likely surpass in effect, the rehearsals of '82. I hope that this explanation will serve as a partial justification in the eyes of my brother of '83, who is rightly disturbed at my very unfortunate tardiness...
...both in base-ball and other branches of athletics. Next year, with the proper training, we should be able to put in the field a nine that could bring honor and credit to Harvard, and we earnestly hope that the faculty will not prevent that nine from contending upon equal terms with those of our rival universities...
...reason why Harvard should not become in time equal to Berlin, but it will require years. The public as yet is indifferent. It does not see as clearly as it ought to the vital connection between the State and education in all stages, high as well as low." - [Interview in the Badger...
...marking be devised, which all the instructors in each freshman department may use. The marking system, which is unfair enough throughout the whole college, is particularly unfair in the case of the freshman year. It so happens that, while several sections pursue the same subject and have an equal amount of knowledge, one division of them is subjected to a very hard examination and the other to an easy one; the former being marked freely, so as to allow nearly every one to pass, and the latter closely, so that far too many are made to fail. Paradoxical...