Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second round of the New England Fencing Tournament will be held at the Worcester Fencers' Club at eight o'clock tonight. Eighteen bouts will be fought, under the rules of the Amateur fencers' League of America. Each about will last four minutes and will be won, other things being equal, by the man scoring the larger number of touches...
...University basketball team will play the Lawrence Y. M. C. A. team at Lawrence tonight. The Lawrence team is equal in strength to the Lowell Y. M. C. A. team, which Harvard defeated 17 to 15. In the game tonight Harvard will have the disadvantage of playing on an unusually small floor...
...Marshall who established in unquestioned integrity the position of the judiciary as co-ordinate with and equal to the legislative branches of the government, and made the Supreme Court recognized as the power qualified to sanction or veto legislative acts. He laid down for all time the fundamental considerations which fix and govern the relative functions of the nation and the States, he defined the powers of the legislatures, and made clear the conception and theory of the American doctrine of constitutional law. He was not overweening in his assumption of the power of the court, but, on the other...
...opposed to the acceptance by Harvard of the proposed uniform entrance examinations. American colleges differ widely from each other in the class of men predominating in their student bodies. In one college the great majority of the men come from small and ill-equipped schools, while in another an equally large proportion come from the large and strong schools. It is almost impossible to formulate any one set of examinations which will satisfy the requirement of all these colleges and apply with equal justice to the various classes of men divided among them. I believe Harvard has little to gain...
...immediate danger to slavery, came in the triumph of cotton and slavery in the Mexican war, the Kansas Bill, and the partiality of the Supreme Court to the South. When at last it grew clearer that the slave labor could not compete on equal terms with free labor and that it was impossible to give salve labor a free chance in the territories, the theory of secession became at once the foremost subject of discussion. So perfect was the unanimity and solidity of the people, that within a hundred days from the election of Lincoln they were seated...