Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contest with the smaller colleges, if she does not see fit to join them, has begun to work consequences of no little moment. It is reported that some members of the nine are about to give up practice if they are to be compelled to play with inferior nines. Although the college has voted once for all not to join the triangular league, still another meeting will probably be called in a day or two and perhaps the former vote will be reconsidered. There seems to be no doubt that if Columbia is admitted, Yale will only be too happy...
...boast of the advance of America beyond the old world in the solution of the public questions of the times and in practical affairs, we yet feel little humiliation that in the artistic and, to a certain extent, in the scholarly world we are still far inferior to our European brothers. Every day we watch with complacency the departure of friends "to study abroad." With unconcern we see the annual exodus of a quota of our graduating classes to Berlin, Paris, and other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this flight for knowledge is a confession...
...Friday night last, while Harvard was declaring that the old base-ball league was an inferior one, and that a new association, composed of better clubs, should be formed, Princeton likewise was discussing, in mass meeting, the project of forming a new league. The college voted to confer unlimited powers upon the base-ball management. So, now, the question is on a fair way to settlement. The old association meets upon Friday of this week, and it is hoped that all the arrangements for the new league will be completed before that time. Action by the management at Princeton...
...strive to communicate them to others." The last words are almost pathetic in their tone. "To obscurity and neglect, then, we commit the "Lyceum." In obscurity and neglect it will find honorable company, and it may be satisfied with this lot, which, though it waits the most inferior, is the fate of the most learned productions. Where are the works of Chaldean, of Persian and of Egyptian wisdom? Ages have revolved since their utter perdition, and if in the sack of Alexandria it was their office to heat the baths of the Saracens, we may be contented to cumber...
...books and that it was - nearly - worth C. The new system is not only distasteful to the "grinds." but also to the average man who does not wish to be marked on a scale so broad as to admit of his being classed with those who are in reality inferior to him. This ridiculous and inefficient scheme was, I believe, brought forth by the conference committee, which (as a well known member of '88 very justly said) "was born sickly, and died young." Let us hope that this offshoot of its weakness, this evidence of its failure, may soon...