Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Gainsborough, said Mr. Ward, was in many respects the equal and in some the superior of Sir Joshua Reynolds; but only as an artist can he be compared to his great contemporary. Sir Joshua was a gentle courtier, the friend of all the prominent men of his time, and as president of the Royal Academy held the highest position an artist could hold. Gainsborough, on the other hand, was quick-tempered, rather illiterate, and chose his friends among a Bohemian set of actors and musicians...
...decree was promulgated. It provided that the peasants were to have all the rights of free cultivators; nobles were to give each peasant between twenty and thirty acres of land, and the government was to remunerate the nobles. The peasants were to repay the government by equal annual instalments for forty-nine years...
...only a final in the quarter. Harvard also proposes that the referee be given power to have the half-mile run in heats when the number of entries requires it. Harvard's half-milers suffered last year by being placed in the third row of starters, which proved equal to a handicap of many yards. Pennsylvania's idea of cutting down the time of the meeting is to have the trials of the quarter-mile and bicycle race in the morning, while Yale favors the same scheme with the addition of having the trials in the 100 yards...
...freshman baseball team began their work in the cage at the Gymnasium yesterday afternoon. The men practiced picking up grounders and then took a short run up North Avenue, which was followed by work on the weights and a light dumb-bell drill. The material is about equal to the usual run of freshman candidates, and as some of the men who eventually play on the team go out with the 'varsity at first, the nine will be stronger than present appearances indicate...
...LONG'S SPEECH.The second speaker was Ernest Mayo Long, L. S., of Yale. He did not equal Ross. He showed less grasp of the subject, and a tendency to talk on points which would appeal to the audience rather than to the judges. He was some what stiff and hesitating in his delivery, but had a quiet sarcasm that told for his side. He said that his predecessor had based his argument on three assumptions, all of which were questionable. First, he assumed that combinations of employers had done harm to laborers, yet they...