Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that Andover has a much weaker team than last year...
...graduate comes home, and the question immediately arises-how is he to assume his proper place at the head of his family; or if his conscience is weaker than his indolence, how is he even to vindicate his own absolute independence of parental influence...
...frequent mention in the newspapers, no one will deny. Vassar College, the pioneer college for women, is an instance where much real harm has come from a cheap newspaper notoriety due to this very fact that it was the first in the field to afford collegiate instruction for the weaker sex. How the college is suffering from the cause may be learned from the following, which an exchange prints...
...Broadway are clogged up, and on rainy days for some time it has taken a pretty good "running long" jump to clear the swelling tide. Tuesday the stream was wider than ever, and many poor jumpers failed to clear it. A spring-board on the sidewalk would save the weaker ones the trouble of going around the block...
...They communicate with each other in an audible murmur, which arouses the curiosity and interferes with the work of everybody near them, but gratifies the curiosity of no one. Consequently, there is a general suspense and impatience, which is very telling on the nervous force of some of the weaker students. We therefore beg those persons who have matters of sufficient importance to be communicated in the library, to speak aloud...