Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...faculty for philosophy, another for languages; one has a synthetic, another an analytic mind; some, born under the ardent rays of the southern sun, have more imagination than judgment; while others, living in the colder regions of the north, have a more severe character, - with such the reasoning is superior to the other faculties; no matter, the course of study is the same for all. All minds are run into the same mould. The germs of all originality are destroyed, every intelligence is measured by the same plummet, special tastes are disregarded, and violence done to peculiar aptitudes as diverse...
...tree, perhaps the favorite scene of the day, we are even more cramped than at the Chapel. Probably no class would be willing to be the first to relinquish the old Rebellion Tree for any other, no matter how superior the location; so we must put up with the lack of room as best we can, as long as Holden Chapel stays where...
...with soul. The former trains the intellectual faculties, the imagination, the memory, the judgment; the latter, the moral faculties, the character, the will. Science is the fruit of instruction; virtue should be the result of a good education. Now, even admitting that instruction in the lyceums is of a superior character, - notwithstanding certain fundamental faults which I may speak of hereafter, - it can be stated without fear of contradiction that education in these institutions is deplorable and pernicious...
...Cambridge crew, the Review says, was in all respects superior to the Oxford; but the race was very close, owing to the superiority of the Oxford boat. If there had been less wind, the Cambridge crew would have won with far less effort; had the wind been stronger, the Oxford would have won. The refusal of the Oxford crew to accept the invitation of the Mayor of London receives the hearty approval of the paper, and leads it into a train of moralizing which is, to say the least, not strikingly original. It occurs to the writer that the crews...
...appropriations have been employed, but still it does not on that account seem necessary for the State to withhold further pecuniary support when its directors promise that, with such aid, it will not be long before the scientific world will acknowledge that the Museum of Comparative Zoology has no superior, nor even equal, in the world...