Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Freshman Banjo Club is said to be far superior to the University Banjo Club. It consists of several banjos, piccolo banjos, mandolins and guitars...
...Monthly for January appears today. As a whole this number is an improvement on the three previous numbers of this college year, and it is far superior to the December number...
...first volume published in 1876, "Consule Planco," as Thackeray would say, which means, when Mr. Quincy was president. "I don't think we wrote on the average such good verses as these." All who have seen the selections for the forthcoming volume, consider that it is as far superior to the first volume as the University of to-day has outgrown the University of twenty years ago. The dedication is "To the founders of the Advocate, the class of '67 and to the class...
...present mode of awarding scholarships to each class separately, the average of scholarships being different in the various classes, men of equal ability and equally good records are treated differently. The one who happens to be in a dull class gets perhaps $200, while the other, whose class is superior, gets left. This was particularly noticeable in the last assignment; a man with 84 per cent. in the sophomore class got a Shattuck scholarship, while men with 87 per cent. in the junior class failed to get anything...
Under the title of "Mr. Hamerton on Literature in a Republic," Mr. Higginson expresses the opinion that an author is far superior to an English duke or an American millionaire. It is with interest that we read this essay, and it is with deep-felt grief that we turn from it to the poem entitled "From Platen." In the last Monthly Mr. Berenson gave us a specimen of poetry which was hardly creditable to his literary ability. This time he offers us a short piece which does credit neither to his power of versification, nor to his judgment in selecting...