Word: pars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thinly settled and only par tidally developed...
...magazine completes its second year with to-day's number, one not much better or worse than the average - indeed the poetry is somewhat below par, though the prose is fully as good as usual...
...this was the unusual difficulty of the paper in German 5 yesterday in striking contrast to the extreme fairness of the papers in both English 6, Spanish 2, and Political Economy 4. To be sure, an instructor may, by marking easily on a hard paper, put himself on a par with an instructor who marks an easy paper hard; but the very difference between the papers makes it uncertain that he will do so. This is an old subject, but we cannot hope for fair marking till a more uniform standard is adapted...
...from a higher stand point, and perhaps an encouragement to that shirking and postponement of work which it cannot be our sober wish to see increase. Furthermore, it is a means by which one man is paid to do the work of another. This puts the custom on a par with that despicable custom of having servitors at English colleges. It is probable, however, that all arguments on this matter will be useless. Every man in college ought to refuse to uphold such a custom...
...very best results. Several of the candidates have had an amount of previous experience which will be not only of great benefit to them but to the other members of the team as well. If the freshmen will only remember that Harvard base-ball stock is way above par this year and that it would be in the worst possible taste for them to do anything that would lower the value in the least, there is no reason why they should not only defeat some of the surrounding high schools, but also keep the Yale freshmen from their doubtless uncomfortable...