Word: scale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Amateur Athletic Union has determined to hold an athletic meeting on a large scale during the progress of the coming world's fair...
...Catholic University which was dedicated yesterday at Washington, is attracting much attention. The scale on which it has been planned is a large one, and it is expected that it will be a success from the start...
This tour is arranged on a larger scale than any ever before attempted by college musical organizations, but the large number of Princeton graduates on the Pacific coast insure its success. The trip will certainly be a most pleasant one for the members of the clubs, and will doubtless prove a valuable advertisement for the college...
What Professor Lumholtz had to say of the natives themselves was, however, the most instructive part of the talk. He is the only European who has ever made this people a study. They are unquestionably the lowest of the human race in the scale of civilization; everything connected with their life proves this. The language is very simple, the vocabulary being extremely limited: there are no general words, as the natives do not make the simplest generalization; whole ideas are expressed by single words, and everything marks a primitive phase of human life. This is even more clearly shown...
Juniors are eligible to the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Society if they attain a standing of 3.15 on a scale of four in scholarship for the first two and a half-year's of their course...