Word: inferiorated
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...occurs the first winter meeting and we wish the officers in charge a successful outcome for their labors in preparing for this spring awakening of athletics. They have made considerable preparation and they ought to be rewarded therefor. Nor does the college wish to be disappointed by witnessing anything inferior to what it has been accustomed...
...suppose that the gymnasial course is more extensive than the ordinary course in an American college arts department. We cover more ground and our graduates are more developed and better able to engage in the struggle of life. But in the matter of close training and drill, we are inferior. The German University finds its men prepared to build an edifice upon a foundation already laid There is no preliminary work done in the university except in the case of some studies which are not within the scope of the gymnasium, and even here the elements are compressed into...
...commencement, Aug. 25, 1830, twenty-four of the forty-eight members of Sumner's class were awarded parts. Sumner's was an inferior part, but all that his standing in the regular course admitted. Sixteen of the forty-eight were elected into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Sumner was not one of the sixteen, but he belonged to the Hasty Pudding Club, and when a senator, was accustomed to send books to its library. Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Emery, of Newburyport, writes of Sumner: "He never studied, as many young men do, for college honors, but for love of study...
...Newark Meadows. We frankly acknowledge that the aquatically inclined students of Yale and Harvard-individually as boys, and collectively as boat clubs-have frequently, persistently, and with malice aforethought, committed the crime colloquially called "putting on airs" over the oarsmen of what they are pleased to call "inferior," and "country" colleges," and then he naively remarks in the happiest vein, "we also cheerfully admit that this conduct is discourteous and unjustifiable." His remedy for our practice of "putting on airs." over "country oarsmen," is that, "since eminent lawyers agree that this offence is not a felony, nor even a misdemeanor...
...supporters claim that a modification of some of the details, if necessary, will make it practicable and, as a need of some such action, will right the numerous defeats which Harvard has suffered where the cause can be assigned to the improper filling of a position by an inferior...