Word: equalizes
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...Harvard five birds in the lead. The second half was more spirited and both teams did much better shooting. Yale tried hard to overcome Harvard's lead but without success. The first round was a tie. A gain of two birds in the second round was offset by an equal loss in the third and the match closed with Harvard still five birds ahead. The following are the individual scores in detail. HARVARD...
This year the Conference starts with very bright prospects and there is every reason to believe that its success will equal if not surpass that of the past...
...parliament in 1883. The chief points of this act are that each candidate shall file a sworn statement of all money he receives for election expenses, and of all money he spends and others spend for him. The advantage of this is that candidates will enter the struggle on equal terms. Furthermore election contests are to be decided in court and not by legislatures; in court a man can get the best possible hearing, and is bound to have his case decided on its own merits, a thing legislatures do not always do. The penalty for bribery is increased...
...Such a system is entirely foreign to the theory of the constitution. Our whole system of checks and balances would be destroyed. (a) The executive would be merged in the legislative. (b) The weaker of the Houses of Congress would succumb to the stronger. (c) The equal representation of the states will be lost-Lowell, in Atlantic Monthly, February, 1886; Von Holst Constitutional Law S25 S26; Hare Constitution al Law, pp. 175-180; Nation, 28-243; Pomeroy Constitutional...
...strong and simple the me. His work and his theory have been the subject of sharp discussion in England, and since the production of "A Doll's House" in Boston last month, the interest here is scarcely less. Indeed there is some danger of an Ibsen cult equal to the recent Browning craze. But whatever may be thought of Ibsen's artistic principle, the power of his work is unquestioned, and "The Lady of the Sea" is at present of special interest because in it Ibsen suggests answers to the problems proposed by him in "A Doll's House...