Word: different
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have its effect in producing a close and happy connection between the two great universities concerned. Athletic contests between the large American and Canadian universities are perhaps all too rare. Indeed hockey is the only major sport in which meetings have yet been possible, for the American football rules differ largely from ours, and their track season is not autumn, but spring. Hockey contests are therefore watched with unusual interest by graduates and students...
...took examinations under the new plan, the Committee on Admission admitted 72 and refused 43. The large percentage of failures brought out clearly how widely standards differ in schools throughout the country. Many boys whose school records indicated that they were excellent scholars did very badly in the examinations...
...last column were compiled. They express the ratio of the men in Congress to the number in a graduating class twenty years ago. The size of a class twenty years ago was taken, because that is about the time the average Congressman graduated. The ratios for the different colleges are approximately the same, from which we may conclude that each college sends about the same proportion of its men to Congress. This fact would hardly be expected, since the colleges differ so widely. It is, perhaps, an argument that all the colleges, large or small, produce approximately the same percentage...
...state the great masses of various races which pour into the land differ not only from the native Americans but from one another. There is talk of assimilation and amalgamation, but blends lose the quality of the ingredients, and that is what we may look forward to when we attempt to amalgamate the widely different races which come to this country. This diversity of races in the state is going to exist for hundreds and thousands of years and is desirable, as natural history shows. For a third time we must look to ideals for unity and find them...
...scene of the first farce is the office of a hotel in the town of State Line, on the boundary of New Jersey and New York, the state line running through the office of the hotel. As the laws of New York and New Jersey differ on divorce and on the serving of writs, the state line passing through the room causes unexpected and very amusing complications in the relations of James Long, a somewhat quick-tempered young husband; Susan Long, who in a fit of anger has recently arranged a divorce from him in the Dakota courts; their Aunt...