Word: equalizer
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Seek for an equal defect...
...society whose doors are closed against all who do not prove their right to admission. It is evidence that America feels the need of an aristocracy, and that she can afford to support one; and any country which cannot is too poor a relation to be admitted on equal terms into the great family of nations...
...buildings would be improved, and it seems remarkable that nothing has ever been done about it. We remember distinctly the delightful sensation of surprise which we experienced last fall on seeing the walks covered with tiles. When we revisit these scenes after another vacation may we gaze with equal delight upon ivies and woodbines creeping upwards over the rugged walls of our buildings...
...recitation; while attendance on the "B" should be compulsory, and the recitation marks averaged with the marks of the monthly examinations. Those who preferred to be marked on recitations could remain in "B" divisions. The examinations should count as a certain number of recitations, say an hour examination equal to three recitations; a two-hour examination to six, and a three-hour to nine, recitations...
...expense of the great and good Socrates. We will admit that as a base-ball player his career was hardly successful; but even his bitterest enemies must confess that nature certainly intended him for a clown, and we defy Corinth or any other Peloponnesian village to produce his equal in that capacity...