Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...position of the boats at the start: Each boat shall carry a flag nine by five inches on a metal rod eighteen inches high, the rod to be fixed perpendicularly at the stem of the shorter boat, and on the longer boat at a distance from the stem equal to half the difference in the lengths of the boats...
...eighteen (18) inches high, carrying a flag measuring nine (9) by five (5) inches, of the color of its university. Such rod shall be fixed perpendicularly at the stem of the shorter boat, and on the longer boat at a distance forward from the centre of said boat equal to half the length of the shorter boat. Each boat shall be started even by these flags, so fixed on the starting line, and shall be adjudged to have completed the course when said flags shall have crossed the finish line...
...share of the valuable residuary estate, after giving his brother some real estate and $100,000, to be applied to the use of the college, the testator's preference, as expressed, being to aid poor young men in securing an education in any of the departments of the institution. Equal shares are also given to Yale, Amherst and Williams colleges to be applied in the same...
...usefulness since he entered upon his office, and called attention to the fact that there had been no addition to the mental, moral and political sciences. "It would be a great stroke of wisdom," he said, "for the friends of the college to establish a School of Philosophy equal or superior to any in the country...
...made according to the class of men with whom he wishes to associate. The more studious man will look to the college which offers the best prizes and affords the best opportunities for gaining instruction. But that large class of men which goes to college with other considerations equal to that of acquiring knowledge and culture, also bears in mind what kind of men it will be thrown in with in one college rather than another and decides accordingly. This is no small attraction of English university life; that is to say the intimacy which one enjoys with...