Word: equalizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...April number of the Harvard Monthly presents much that is interesting but is hardly equal to the preceding issue. Professor Bocher offers a transcription of some of Sainte-Beuve's marginal references. This is a new method of studying a great man, but it is none the less satisfactory. Many of us who have been puzzled as to the secret of the power of the great critic, to say, apparently at a moment's notice, things at once cutting, brilliant, and profound have now our questionings answered. M. Sainte-Beuve in continually thinking with pen in hand is able when...
...contest with Yale. We have, perhaps, enough already. But to assert as a reason for refusal that such a contest will give Yale the same advantages which we have, is to cast reflections upon the ability of our 'Varsity teams to cope with those of Yale on fair and equal terms, and is unworthy of Harvard men. The matter hinges now on the suitability of the Thames course for a triple race. Therefore let a meeting of the freshman class be called at once by the proper officers, in view of the general feeling of dissatisfaction which has been openly...
...four hundred boarding-school boys in various parts of the United States who are intending to come to Harvard next year, but who have absolutely no connection with college, many of whom never will be here or will be plucked in the examinations, should have an equal chance at the limited number of rooms available, with fellows who have been here two and three years, have their friends and interests centred here, who will have, perhaps, only one other chance? Is it fair, even, that the man of one year's standing in the college should stand on equal ground...
...Oxford-Cambridge boat race is attracting far less attention than usual. Neither crew is thought remarkable, but experts expect the Oxfords to win, as they are the more powerful crew, though both are about equal in point of style. - Yale News...
...constitution of the new base-ball league admitting Columbia to an equal participation is hardly dry before we hear that college wants something more and this appears to be a share in the Yale-Harvard boat race. The following extract from the Globe of yesterday in speaking of the freshman race speaks for itself...