Word: equalizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much more restricted than that of the President of the United States. Corresponding to our two houses are the Bundesrath and the Reichstag, established in 1871. In their short life they have accomplished a great deal, viz.: they established a uniform duty so that all the states can enjoy equal privileges; they introduced a uniform monetary system, and reformed the department of justice. The army had a great deal to do with the rise of nationality. All are compelled to serve their term, so that both soldiers and officers have among them the most cultured Germans. During the last twenty...
...proposed to name the women's annex to Columbia College for the venerable Dr. Barnard, the president of Columbia, who has been foremost in advocating equal educational opportunities for both men and women...
Were this done, Harvard would afford advantages for the study of electricity equal to any public institution of the country...
...correcting. It was stated that at the intercollegiate games in New York last May, Webster, of the University of Pennsylvania, broke the world's record in the high jump, with a jump of 5 feet, 11 1-2 inches. He defeated Page at the games but did not equal Page's record which at that time was over six feet. In the pole vault, an unfair comparison was made between Shearman's record and that of Ray of England, in that the reader was led to suppose that Ray's record is a college one, when in reality...
...prosperous state. Three or four years ago, the conditions were reversed, and had Harvard been challenged then, the challenge would probably have been refused. It would be well, however, if in the near future, an annual road-race could be arranged, when the two clubs could meet on an equal footing, and race alternately at Cambridge and New Haven...