Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...breadth of judgment and intelligence of thought is just what college with its four years of recitations and examinations will give to any person who is capable of receiving it. It is untrue, then, to say that a man who has derived these advantages from a college course is inferior to the man who has not done...
...kept up. It is better than the old class-system it succeeded, but it needs at present some one to put life into it. We are sorry to hear that the captain of at least one club is anxious to perpetuate the plan of making the six-oared crews inferior to the four-oared. This was done last fall from necessity, but we said then, and we say now, that it is a backward step, - not to be considered a moment by those who have any desire to see our boating interests improved. Men who have such a desire should...
...shall have next summer three separate intercollegiate contests, and every college, except Harvard and Yale, will row in four-oared boats. At the time of our fall races we said that the action of the Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. in making the six-oared crews inferior to the four-oared was bad for the rowing interest of the college. The action of the American and New England Associations affects in the same way the rowing interests of the country. The circumstances of the smaller colleges no doubt made the change necessary, as the weak state...
...undergraduate members of the Pi Eta, included the farce "Class-Day," and the burlesque "Villikins and his Dinah." The farce was written for the society by Dr. F. A. Harris, a graduate member, and though depending more than usual upon the absurdity of situations for its effect, and inferior to his former farce "Chums," yet it received deservedly a fair share of applause. The Honorable Mr. Buncombe as personated by Mr. Sargent, and Mr. Joy in the character of Mrs. Taylor, were both well received, as was also Mr. Harris, in the part of Frank Buncombe...
...people, or perhaps we should rather say the subjects, of Harvard were divided very distinctly into two castes, the more numerous of which considered the other as inferior to it. The upper caste was divided into three classes, though what the distinctions between them were is unknown...