Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bemis, whose notice of a new stock of cigars etc. appears on this page, claims that he offers superior in ducements to his customers on the ground that he selects the tobacco leaf for his won manufacture...
...where the tendency of the school is toward Harvard, the number of applicants for admission is gratifying. Then there is a pride among New Englanders at having an university so essentially their own, and its nearness also contributes in no small degree to its popularity, not to mention the superior advantages afforded men who desire to pursue a special course of study...
...Wesleyan chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, and is ready for plastering. It will, no doubt, be occupied in season for the summer reception on Tuesday of commencement week. The building is of brick and wood, with a slight suggestion of "Queen Anne" about it, and is in some respects superior to any society hall at Wesleyan...
...from the college certain privileges in the use of the library, but its request was summarily refused. It is therefore thought that by voluntarily extending to it the privileges of its membership the Co-operative Society, a body representing the larger part of the students, can gracefully show its superior courtesy and put the Harvard corporation to the blush...
...most interesting and valuable features of the Johns Hopkins University library is the newspaper bureau. A trained editor and a staff of assistants read all the representative dailies, mark superior articles upon economic, political, social, educational, legal and historical subjects. These are afterwards clipped and arranged in newspaper budgets, kept in large envelopes or oblong boxes. These are marked with labels, and the list of subjects includes everything of value that finds its way into the columns of the press. Bulletin boards are covered daily with the best clippings from the latest papers, arranged under the leading heads of current...