Word: evenly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...should require his whole last year's 'Varsity crew, and surely '82's crew is n't equal to that yet. Let '82, however, do her best to beat Columbia, should Columbia accept, and reserve herself a little bit longer for Cornell, when she can meet her on an even footing at least...
...reading his verses, if a crime, is in itself sufficient penance; and Swinburne was forbidden, while Byron was not. But the list of restricted books has been carefully revised, and the number upon it is now almost ludicrously small. Some may think that they should be permitted to read even these few, and we doubt not that upon presenting good reasons to the Librarian they will be permitted to do so; but let us hear no more complaint about a restriction really of such trivial importance...
...Junior at Baliol ten years ago, say that your crew of '69 lacked only good form to equal the best of ours, and as your present boat seems to have acquired this, - to judge from what you say, - I think the chances must have been very even had we been able to arrange a race...
...sacrifice of money, time, and comfort - than could attend it at any other place. Last summer's crowd was much larger than any which had previously assembled on any similar occasion in America, and it is fair to presume that if next June's crews are believed to be evenly matched, the attendance will be doubled. But New London offers no facilities for lodging such a multitude over night, or even for supplying it with food for the space of a day; and great dissatisfaction and discomfort would therefore result from delays or postponements. Of course these latter...
...Yale men who would be glad each year to finish up their Commencement celebration by witnessing a race between the representative boats of the two colleges, provided they can witness it quickly and inexpensively; and those who man the boats ought to defer to their friends' comfort and convenience, even irrespective of the fact that by thus rigorously ruling out all sideshows or subsidiary contests, which may tend to make confusion or delay, they will best subserve their own individual interests as oarsmen...