Word: equally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot fail of being a source of great pleasure and amusement to the fortunate members, and will also be a most excellent school for candidates for the College Glee Club, which, with the advantage of having so many candidates from which to make a selection, ought to be the equal of the Glee Club of any college in the country. So Princeton, which will have her Class Glee Clubs, and Yale, with a second Glee Club and a Freshman club to draw from, will soon be able to compete on equal terms in another grand contest for the championship, which...
...ignorant of. Such men are really very rare; but if we suppose that they do exist, and further suppose that their deception is so small that it is for all practical purposes zero, then and only then, can we say that they might on as fair and as equal terms cope with an examination designed to test their knowledge. Such men may, and may not, be right in their theory of examinations; but for ourselves we feel at liberty to differ with them inasmuch as we possess the required humility-and it does not take very much-to confess ourselves...
Student in Geometry (in the course of a demonstration)-"If the are AB be drawn, then will CD equal...
...usually know as written, because they are wholly contained in written enactments. But the current fashion of expressing, this distinction is unsatisfactory. It does not indicate the true nature of the difference. The real and essential difference is that in Constitutions of the flrst kind all laws are of equal validity. The Queen, Lords and Commons, if they agreed, might legally effect the most radical changes in our constitution. In political systems of the other type, the law of the Constitution is exalted above the ordinary legislature, which can, by itself, effect no change in it whatever...
...stranger, the spot in the whole building of most interest is the Warren Museum, situated in the front of the upper stories. Here are gathered all things medical, in a collection which has not an equal in this country. It was founded many years ago by old Dr. John C. Warren, one of the celebrities of the medical profession, and a man much interested in the school. Among them are many very curious things which would fill the soul of a dime museum propritor with envy. As, for instance, a cast of the skull of the horned woman...