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Word: inferiors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hours for batting practice. In addition to this the men will practice throwing in Lincoln Rink. In comparing the respective merits of the Yale freshman candidates and Harvard candidates, one cannot help but be impressed with the weakness of our men. From present developments the freshmen here are decidedly inferior to the men at New Haven, and only by the hardest kind of work and systematic training can Harvard hope to wipe out the remembrance of the fiasco of last year's freshman team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Freshman Nine. | 2/9/1888 | See Source »

...thoroughly competent to deal with the minor details and intricacies of the large daily publications, to give a series of lectures on that subject. A course of this kind would tend to be a sort of stepping-stone for those who intend to make journalism their profession, from the inferior to the superior grades of newspaper work. Mr. Pulitzer, of the New York World, is a strong advocate of the formation of a college chair of journalism, believing that by this means a stronger inducement will be offered to the undergraduates to adapt themselves more thoroughly to this occupation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/8/1888 | See Source »

...power. It is natural for the management of the freshman crew to look with indulgence on the faults of friends, and to regard as unpardonable errors the faults of all others. This sort of thing must stop. The best man must be seated in the crew, no matter how inferior he may be to some others in the scales of sociability. It is not a matter of sentiment; the management is elected to further the interests of the college and secondarily the class, and it would be well for them to realize the extent of this responsibility. It is Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1888 | See Source »

While our accomplishments in matters of learning are surely inferior to theirs, our moral life and our inspirations during college years are very much nobler and worthier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Teuton and the American Student. | 12/21/1887 | See Source »

...college" team which met Yale university in daily practice could easily overcome all foot-ball associations in the country excepting the three leaders. The same is probably true of the Harvard "college" team. At tennis last fall it is said that the Harvard tournament was scarcely at all inferior to the inter-collegiate affair. And in base-ball both universities can and do raise very skillful second nines. But besides, with their resources of large classes and departments, Harvard and Yale can not only equip their representatives for business, but they can enlarge the true blessings of sport, by making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About College Athletics. | 12/2/1887 | See Source »

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