Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same as gone, too. And yet,-we wish to ask the News if its decision is unalterable. May not your Nine all die, or be dropped, or your college be blown up by dynamiters, or something? Can't you give us a ray of hope even, from your superior prescience of next year's happenings...
From the Yale News we take the following account of the Amherst nine. Indications show that, like Dartmouth, Amherst hopes to secure a leading position in this year's championship struggle, and that the nine which it will place in the field this spring will be equal, if not superior, to its team of last year...
...black letters, H. A. A., on the breasts of the Mott Haven men, signify that they being to the second squad. The crimson letters signify that the wearers belong to the first or superior squad...
...other regulations are no less arbitrary than the one above. The rectors or presidents of the universities are to be appointed by the Minister of Police. As the rector's authority is superior to that of the faculty, it will be seen what an immense power for good or ill this right of appointment places in the Minister's hands. If he fills the office with his parasites and henchmen, he destroys the influence of the universities at a blow...
...matter of regret that the University has not the means to enable it to secure the delivery of a greater number of public lectures by men eminent as specialists or as writers, than at present. The opportunities offered at Johns Hopkins in this respect are far superior to those at Harvard, while at Cornell the instruction given by nonresident lecturers, is a prominent feature of the college curriculum. Harvard cannot take her just position as a university till free opportunities of this sort are offered. It is true that Boston, particularly by means of the Lowell Institute, partially fills this...