Word: equally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the board of trustees of Columbia College which advocated a radical change in the college proper. The object was to do away with the undergraduate department-the Arts School-and make Columbia a University on the German plan, according to which all faculties are on an equal footing, a thing, they said, which could never take place when a student first obtains his general education at a college and then studies for his professional degree at a postgraduate school. This proposed radical change has given way to a more conservative scheme. At present the trustees are debating...
...subject and is not noteworthy for the force of its suggestions, it is animated by a spirit sooner or later to be adopted by all true Americans. The almost universally accepted modifications of the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal" are fully upheld in the assertion that our country is not to be thought of as merely an asylum for the pporessed. The duty of selfpreservation is the central idea of the article...
...management of the concert to have some of the best seats for sale here in Cambridge, for the convenience of the New York men in college. This plan was tried successfully by the football management a year ago, and there is no reason to doubt that it would meet equal success if tried by the management of the Glee Club. We do not see that the carrying out of this plan would cause the manager much trouble. but even if it did it ought not to be abandoned. The New York men are here in such great numbers that their...
...train, or a detention of some nature. Harvard has a good eleven. The Harvards played their game with the Princetons on the grounds of the latter, and not on neutral territory, as was the case with the Princeton and Yale game. There was therefore no chance of comparison under equal conditions. If Yale felt as sure of defeating Harvard as it pretended, why did the Yale management not consent to the playing of an exhibition game, which would count as nothing even in case of defeat? No, Yale did not care to take any chances...
...rank of American colleges. Each successive defeat pushes us further from the front and if we do not desire to see in the spring one more victory added to Yale's already long list, we must place our crew in a position where it can struggle with Yale on equal terms...