Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...want to be called a fool. And I think that I hardly need tell you that it is very impolitic to differ from any man's opinion in regard to the proper management of his pocket. Disagree as much as you please in thought, but listen with equal amiability and assent to the spendthrift and the miser. Of course you will not be a hypocrite, - one of those clumsy fools who think that tact and lying are the same thing. All I tell you to do is to listen amiably to other men's nonsense, and to keep your...
...what does it all mean? The first verse plainly refers to an equal facility in the performance of duties professional and ecclesiastical, and the last implies that the "thou" referred to was the first visible embodiment of a type which had previously been dimly comprehended. It must be a satire on some Yale instructor. No doubt some Yale man wrote it and lost it on his visit here with the Nine. It's written in blue ink, - of course a Yale man wrote...
...regards the religious tendencies of the class, we find that the Unitarians are the most numerous, and that an equal number have no particular religion. Next in number come the Congregationalists and the Episcopalians. The list is as follows...
...papers have always been fortunate in having poetry of a high order. At many colleges, where the prose-writing is really good, the contributions of poetry are made up wholly, or almost wholly, of "elegant extracts." Our papers, on the other hand, have always abounded in original poetry, fully equal to the poetry in the periodicals of the day, and on this point we have long been the object of envy of all our college exchanges...
...College deduct from the rent of each room an amount equal to that paid the goody for keeping it in order. Then let the occupant of each room hire a goody on his own account, to be paid by himself, and whom he may dismiss if her duties are neglected...