Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chances for success over Yale in athletics this year are discouraging. The material for the nine cannot be compared with that which Yale has; the crew is light, and Yale is displacing men who had seats in last year's boat because of the superiority of new material; and, even when the two probable Mott Haven teams are compared, Yale seems at present to have a clear advantage...
...forced his theory even so far as to claim that the new method was the only right method of writing. As a novelist he was an artist, but in criticism he was narrow-minded and bigotted. He wrote too much, too many pages of mere detailed description. In this way he has fallen into the trap of Psychology, making his characters tell what they think instead of trusting to their individuality to demonstrate their thoughts. He might well have relied on this feature of his characters, for no one knew better than he how to make mere paper...
...request of the Corporation, being represented as a purely temporary matter-to continue only till the new hall was built. The pressure at Memorial has increased, the Corporation ask for still greater accommodations, but the new dining hall is as far off as ever, and the Corporation even say that there is no chance for one at present...
...section accommodates but five hundred and twenty. That is, materially less than one-half the students in Memorial occupy more than two-thirds of the hall. The smaller section is daily over-crowded; the larger section is never completely occupied. Frequently a score or so of students-and occasionally even more-are standing in wait for seats at the same moment when, across a purely imaginary line, there are more than a hundred vacant chairs...
...hall, the number at each club table could be raised from fourteen to eighteen. This increase at the club tables would almost exactly balance the decrease at the general tables. Some club tables already have two extra men, and suffer no inconvenience; that four extra men would destroy, or even seriously impair, the pleasant social relations now existing in the hall seems highly improbable. Certainly, even if there was a small inconvenience occasionally, it would be more than counterbalanced by the larger number of men admitted to the hall. It is a clear case of the greatest good...