Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second fall was even more quickly accomplished. Bowen got another neck hold and threw his adversary. Holden formed a bridge but not quickly enough. The referee decided that it was a fall and the bout, together with the heavy-weight cup, was awarded to Bowen...
...interesting review of the "Rise and Early Constitutions of Universities" has appeared in the last number of the Nation. According to the view of the author, until the fourteenth century there were no conscious foundings of universities. A university grew, and was not made. We may well doubt if even then all of the universities which are now flourishing in Europe were founded with any idea of the many branches of learning which are now so temptingly offered to allure the ambitious student. It is certain that the founders of the first colleges in this country had no suspicion...
...news of the death of Edward Fox Fessenden on last Friday evening, March 11, has cast a sudden and deep gloom upon the whole senior class. Mr. Fessenden had been in poor health for some weeks, and on Sunday was in great suffering. On Tuesday pneumonia manifested itself in its most violent form. Few men will be more regretted not only by his class mates but also by all his many friends in and about college. None who came in contact with his simple, manly character can fail to grieve at his loss. His career at college, both socially...
...advance sheets of the second number in the present volume are out, and they promise us a number fully up to the good standard set by the new board in their first issue. We even wish there were more sheets than there are. Indeed, another short story, as good as the first one, could have a taken the place of the batch of daily themes. The practice of publishing these choice bits of literature is good, but five is too many for a paper of the size of the "Advocate." "A Fool's Revenge" is hardly a story, for there...
...touches our honor as Englishmen very nearly that this scheme should be carried out without delay. France and Germany have long been in the field. France has her School and Germany her Institute; and even America has forestalled us in this race. That new country, notwithstanding the vast and absorbing interests of the present, notwithstanding the boundless hopes of the future, has been eager to claim her part in the heritage. While all the civilized nations of the world, one after another, have established their literary councils in Athens, shall England alone be unrepresented at the centre of Hellenic culture...