Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college annexes ought aid the thinkers in England in solving the difficult problem and show them that here, at least, popular prejudice has been changed by the successful result of an experiment. That woman ought not to receive the same salary as men is evident, because they are personally weaker and cannot endure what men can. Yet, to say that a women ought not to get a degree, simply because she is a woman, even when she passes the same examinations and does the same amount of work as a man, is unreasoning obstinacy. Let us hope this simple question...
...principles into their minds. Their progress was so slow that it was not until three or four days before the race that the men struck the keynote as a crew. Compared with the other ten crews which rowed in the 1873 college regatta, Yale was probably physically weaker than any other. Notwithstanding that fact, however, we easily won the race with an average of 32 to the minute, while the others averaged from...
Probabilities are that the Princeton nine will field better, but be weaker at the bat, than last year's nine...
...abandonment of games with many colleges. They will also be forced to give up the annual series of games with the Beacons, and will even be prevented from playing with a nine picked from the graduates of this college, as has been customary heretofore. Being obliged to contend with weaker nines, the games will be one-sided and uninteresting...
They are thus without those qualities which are calculated to give them "nerve" at critical points in a game, and for this reason often go to pieces before a weaker nine because they happen to be for the moment at a disadvantage. How much more so is this the case when their opponents are the champions of a year before. The nine are doing all in their power at present to place themselves in the field in good condition for the intercollegiate matches, and it only remains for the faculty to place them on an equality with other college nines...