Word: easier
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very exact conclusions can be drawn from these statistics, because appointments are easier to obtain at Yale than at Harvard, a larger number being given each year at New Haven than at Cambridge...
...said that perseverance is as necessary for success in religion as in anything else, and it is especially necessary at Harvard where is practically no religious life. At Oxford it is very different; all the professors and dons are strong church men, and thus it is much easier to be steadfast in religious work...
...geometry, algebra, and natural science. The grammar schools will continue their low standard as long as the requirements for admission to the high schools are so low. A nine-year-old ought to pass the entrance examinations to Exeter. The fault lies also with the scientific schools; it is easier to enter the Harvard professional schools than it is to enter Harvard college...
...depressed them as they were trying to find catalogues, programs of courses, lecture rooms, university offices, professors, and information about the kind, quality, and amount of work, for the first time in this large and unfriendly city. These students wish at least to do something to make the way easier for those who may come after them...
...would be charitable to suppose that every freshman has an examination on Monday and therefore stays in Cambridge to study hard all Saturday. But the more common-sense view to which we are forced is that Ninety-four does not care whether her nine wins or not. It is easier to believe that such is the case when we recollect the support which the class has hither to given its own athletic teams. It is disheartening to urge the necessities of the case upon a class which shows such a willful disregard of them. The freshman class has a chance...