Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scale of college salaries has not changed since 1869, although the class of teachers called instructors have been paid at a higher rate within recent years than they were formerly. The year 1886-87 will be memorable for the successful celebration in November, 1886, of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College. It will also be remembered as the first year in which the University received gifts to the amount of more than a million of dollars...
...sophomore year arrives, and one eventful night Y, the butterfly, is informed that he has been advanced a grade in the social scale. He emerges from his room the next morning with a fine feeling of self-satisfaction tingling in his spinal marrow. He feels it necessary to show his importance to the world. On his way to breakfast he meets X, but instead of bowing he looks intently at a scrap of paper in the street, or tries to "read the answer in the stars," or something of that kind, for he is now of another world...
...quarters where the admission would have been impossible not so many years ago. For a long time even Harvard seemed disposed to cling too tenaciously to the classical system of education, or, at least, in recognizing the value of greater breadth, to place English much further down in the scale of (merit than it deserved. But with certain changes which have been made in the establishment of honors in English, a new and happier spirit has prevailed, of which this latest announcement of additional courses in the English department is one of the fruits...
...began with an enumeration of the advantages which, Americans who study statistics possess. No European country has yet had the courage to take an industrial census upon the vast scale of the one of 1880 in the United States...
...race has perhaps been unequalled for many years as the prospect for a close and exciting contest has never been fairer. The hard and conscientious training of all the eights entitle them all to the victory. But it will be muscle and skill that will turn the scale to-day. Seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen all have our good wishes...