Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tufts eleven were very much inferior in weight to our team, but their work was very fair, and their tackling was really good. Our eleven must drop on the ball more fearlessly, and must display more headwork in their play. For so unimportant a game, the play was unusually rough on both sides. Altogether too much time was wasted on either side by orations for the benefit of the referee...
...college, that is meant to encourage them to greater exertions. They should aim at perfection only, and should be far from satisfied with a game like Saturday's. They certainly played brilliantly then, and made a large score; but the other side were allowed to score also, although so inferior to our team. The goal the Techs, kicked was got, it is true, by chance from the field, but it was a chance they should never have been allowed to have...
...association, and each year the interest in the sport has spread wider and wider among all the colleges. This year the number of colleges which expect to be represented is eleven, and as many of the best players in the country are still students the playing will not be inferior to the great Newport tournament for the championship of the United States. As far as is known the colleges will send the following teams; Harvard, Sears, M. S., and Taylor, '86; Yale, Knapp and Thorne; Princetonm Halsey and Larkin; Columbia, Schuyler and Stevens; Brownk Gardner and Hills; Trinity, Brinley...
...debatable point logically, a point at which the divines of England are launching their stores of old saws, proverbs and "antediluvian nonsense," as Dr. Collier sensibly calls it, all opposition ought and eventually will cease. A letter from one of the leading ministers of England states that "women are inferior to men and consequently their sphere is different," with other statements of the same sort which are by no means arguments that women ought not to receive the same privileges for a certain amount of study as men. This opposition to the education of women is worthy of more early...
...Acta considers the Columbia university crew inferior to the freshman...