Word: pars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of the introductory courses at the present time, of which History 1 is the conspicuously successful exception, men who get grades of A sit in the same section as those with C's and E's, as though they were all on an intellectual par. This arrangement is due to a supposition, proved quite erroneous by the results, that men of high intellectual capacities will be helped by such close contact with their mental inferiors and vice versa. This would work out successfully if it were merely contact which the student gets in such a levelled arrangement. However...
...from the time of Confucius to the present. Among them: Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's Richard the Second, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The governor of a Chinese province once banned Alice in Wonderland because in it animals talked, thus putting themselves on a par with humans. Tsarist Russia, fearful lest moppets get fantastic ideas, banned Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. Last week New York Junior Leaguers, delighted by the interest the exhibition had aroused, extended it an extra week, talked of taking it on tour...
With the scalps of M.I.T., Columbia and Penn already under their belt the 150-pounders are given their best chance in years of taking the trophy. In their performances to date the Tigers are about on a par with the Yale boat which they consider their biggest threat next Saturday. Both beat M.I.T. by about the same margin, but the Orange and Black oarsmen opened up a little more water on Columbia...
Amenities of the serving staff in the Halls is not a subject for investigation by harried committees of overseers, nor an omission that the matrons would allow the committee of ladies who sample our food to suffer. Neither is it a biological necessity on a par with whole some food. Yet it has a certain importance along with such trivialities as neckties, clean hands, and the absence of too many Anglo-Saxon nionosyllables from our speech--which can be summed up under the single word, "manners...
...possible to imagine Anthony Abbott, S.S. Van Dine, Carolyn Wells et al enjoying acute cases of indigestion when they see what Mr. Irwin has done with their favorite little tricks. The astute reporter, amateur detective par excellence, successfully makes a dummy out of Sergeant Kellius of the Rome police. The villain becomes the hero, the hero becomes the villain, the love affair is consummated prettily, in fact the ardent detective story reader, if he choose to take this seriously, can find no faults with the orthodoxy of the technique. But the reader who thumbs the pages from a previously experienced...