Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...around Paris were exposed to great hardships, from both hunger and cold, and in moving from one place to another were forced, on account of the number of men and the narrowness of the roads, to stand waiting almost for hours before being able to move forward. This proved even more fatiguing than constant marching...
...graduates has ranged from 22 to 52. It seems on the whole to be on the decline, although at its highest mark this year. No less than 124 different colleges have sent graduates to Harvard to study law, but not one has maintained an annual average of even three. Yale leads the list with an average of two. It appears that the number of students belonging to this group has diminished since the establishment of the three-years' course; but that it has reached its lowest point and is now on the increase. It is only in students...
...seen everywhere in God's government of the world. Even portentous circumstances may be traced back to fixed principles. Dr. McKenzie said that he had traced the history of the different members of his class and he found that each seemed to have received all that he deserved. This conclusion may be applied broadly, Good luck comes to the man who is deserving, not morally, but rationally deserving. It is the wise man who wins success, because he has the secret by which success...
...would be confirmed old bachelors long before they reached active professional life. Moreover, the graduates of the best fitting schools would by that time be as well equipped as was many a man of an earlier generation at the proud day when he received his degree of A. B. Even at the present, there are many graduates of these high grade fitting schools who elude the college altogether and enter the professional schools without the academic degree, without the traditional sheepskin. By their act these men are declaring that they are already in effect bachelors of art and ready...
...Even with this addition to its athletic fields, Harvard will have less ground available for the use of its athletes in proportion to the number of students than almost any other college in New England. The college authorities have been cognizant of this difficulty for some time, and they are as anxious to see the matter carried through to a successful issue as are the students...