Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pulsford, '88, while working in the Jefferson Laboratory last week, discovered a new method of determining the relative time of vibration of two tuning forks. The method is so simple, and so superior to all others now known, that it will hence forth be adopted in all Physics courses in Harvard, and probably in most of the other American colleges...
...among American students. But their ideas as to methods for securing this seem to differ widely. One faction would have us avoid all following after English ways; the other faction protests against such a "narrowing down of our models," and urges us to be Englishmen if we think Englishmen superior to Americans. This apparent contradiction is rather a difference than a contradiction, and the difference results from different interpretations of what anglomania is. If the Anglomaniac can be said to be one who imitates English customs because in his heart he believes them better than the corresponding customs at home...
...Harvard Lampoon loses none of its originality. As is often the case, its illustrations are superior to its literature. Particularly good is the representation of a Harvard student of 1900 sitting calmly unmoved and coldly indifferent while a Memorial Hall waiter is pouring soup down the back of his lordship. - Brunonian...
...held by the writer, and doubtless by many others, in their earlier years. When we viewed the world from the foot of the spelling class, years and years ago, we were certain that we were smarter than any other member of it. Now we have written proof, that our superior intellectuality was the real cause of our former disgraceful position, and that, in truth, the rest were mere dolts in comparison with us. It was only another case of the ugly duckling without the ugly duckling's good fortune...
...nobler, lasting and eternal. A college life that was all serious, that had no diversions for mind and body, would be almost worse than a life in the back districts of ignorance. The young, developing mind needs diversion, and time had yet failed to produce a means of diversion superior to that afforded by athletic contests. Those who would have the student think of anything but athletics seem to care more for his harm than for his good. Many say that in themselves athletics are all very well, but why so much attention and enthusiasm? Without the attention...