Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Supposing that Harvard, Yale and Princeton always will have the first three places in the league, we cannot see why the smaller colleges should esteem fourth place in the present league at all less dignified than first place in the proposed smaller eague. To be first in an inferior league, because it seems difficult to be first in the larger league, is a motive that results from a thoroughly false idea of what it is to be first. The plan of forming a new league to consist of the smaller colleges, is merely a plan of forgetting, or trying...
After leaving this study of human nature, we visited the New Law School, Memorial Hall, the beautiful dining place of the students, where, alas, it is said, the cookery is much inferior to the surroundings, and lastly the Agassiz Museum, where we saw a most interesting accumulation of zoological and ornithological remains, intensely diverting if one understands them, only the mammoth, a favorite of a previous visit was not forthcoming, and we were gravely informed that it had probably been cooked up into Memorial Hall soup, while the immense fossil bird, we were told, had been served there on toast...
...outlook for the crew is promising. The crew is not up to the exceptionally high standard of the '87 freshman crew; but on the other hand the Columbia '88 crew is inferior to their winning freshman crew of last year. The rapid improvement which the men have made during the past week, makes us believe that '88 will follow '86's example, and will win the race with Columbia...
...belong the spoils' a good one for a political party," was debated and decided in the negative. Only three questions relating to slavery were chosen for debate, and the debate on one of them was in definitely postponed on the evening appointed for it. The question "Are negroes an inferior race of beings?" was twice discussed, and each time was decided in the negative. The excitement over the then recent abduction of Morgan by Free Masons in Western New York. furnished the society material for a debate which showed that the feeling among the members was against the Masons...
Secondly, the work is said to be of inferior quality. In the opinion of the committee this is false. If the proofs were unsatisfactory, other sittings could have been arranged until satisfactory proofs were obtained...