Word: equalizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...courses in the study of journalism itself, yet there are many courses given here which are very necessary to him who intends to devote his attention to newspaper work, and which in themselves give a better journalistic education than even special courses in journalism would do. Moreover, of equal value with the ably-conducted courses in political science, philosophy and the like, are the opportunities offered by the various student papers here - opportunities which are equalled only by those at Yale. Therefore it is not strange that many of our graduates - a larger percentage than from any other college - have...
...forward, Darwin suddenly remembered that he had once written a letter to Dr. Asa Gray, the famous botanist, of Cambridge, Mass., in which he had expressed the same views that Wallace had announced in his essay. The publication of this letter instantly set Mr. Darwin's claim to the equal right of the authorship of the "Doctrine of the Origin of Species" on a firm basis. And, most strange of all, in the "Life and Letters of Mr. Darwin" now in press, he declares that it was Malthus' Doctrine of Population" which first suggested the theory to his mind also...
...quota of our graduating classes to Berlin, Paris, and other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this flight for knowledge is a confession of the inability to acquire that knowledge here. Does it not seem as if this great western half of civilization might at least equal the eastern in its opportunities for learning? We hear almost daily of bequests for new colleges among us. Our people would almost seem to believe that our universities had reached their greatest height and the only thing left to do was to scatter them around more profusely...
...well to silence this criticism by forming a league with Columbia as a member? If she can maintain a strong nine, the struggle would be more interesting. Harvard's position has been from the first, that the standard of intercollegiate baseball should be raised. If a fair and equal constitution can be framed by the four clubs, then there can be no inconsistency in admitting Columbia...
...large cities has been immense, but New York of to-day is but a pigmy when compared with the New York of the next century. We must do something to root out the liquor trade in these great centres, for it is well known that, other things being equal, the sale of whiskey increases faster than population, if that population lives in towns or cities...