Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Uitlanders had to endure. Is it to be wondered at that England should demand redress, or to be deplored that she should ask an equitable treatment of her citizens? She demanded for the Uitlander justice. She did not demand that he be given control of the government or even an equal share in its administration, but she asked that he be given a voice in the expenditure of taxes, and that measure of protection which every civilized power grants to foreign residents within its territory...
...more practice to be altogether at his case. The "caprices" were spirited and well-drilled, but showed a great lack of lightness on their feet which detracted much from their otherwise excellent showing. The minuet was graceful and very well executed, though a little too much carelessness was shown, even for a dress rehearsal. The music, furnished by the Bohemian Orchestra, was appropriately chosen and well appreciated...
...with its competitor selects alternately the question to be debated, and sends the formulated question to its opponent, leaving to its opponent the choice of sides. The side which either college team chooses to advocate need not, therefore, necessarily represent the prevalent trend of opinion in that college, nor even the individual opinions of the debaters...
...discussion of the new admission requirements by Professor Emerton. He begins by summarizing the tendencies which led from the first adoption of the elective principle to the proposal to take the logical step and satisfy "the demands of those who were not afraid to trust the elective system even in the lower schools. Almost every party was willing to vote for this, upon one condition--that it, the party, might put its own valuation on each study and have its own way as to how much value should be required for admission." So that the whole question of electives...
...direction of building. The new museums have been completed and occupied. They form a most striking addition, from an architectural point of view, to the group of university buildings, and offer abundant room for the great collections of Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities which it has hitherto bee impossible even to unpack. The biological department has completed its "Vivarium," and has filled it with all manner of beasts and creeping things, so that it has become one of the chief attractions to visitors. The law school and the new dormitories are now in course of erection. And now, within a week...