Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Peiraens one day to make a bargain with a native waterman for a sail-boat to take him across the harbor, astonished the man by asking him for a 'transport-boat,' - something that would carry half a dozen regiments of horse. But the Yale professor was any man's equal in the fine-print rules and multifarous exceptions of the grammar. Go to Chicago, not to Athens, for your professors of Greek, gentlemen. In such matters sit at the feet of men of ripe experience like President Barnard of Dartmouth. He knows a good Grecian when he sees...
...opportunity to profit by it is past. There is an undoubted and valuable advantage in the practice of theme-writing, and it is well that the subjects for inspiration have been made so much more interesting and the methods of criticism so much more advantageous. Nothing scarcely can equal the despair of him who finds a lot of dry and unsuggestive subjects set for composition, and nothing is more disheartening than to feel that mere polished, empty formality of expression counts for more than original and characteristic work. There are styles and styles in literature, and no man ought...
...receipts of the box office show that there were nearly 30,000 persons present, and an equal number of slaves and women...
...finally was withdrawn. A vote was then passed that the amended scheme be adopted and forwarded to the corporation for their approval or rejection. Nothing was said concerning the printing of the scheme; do not, however, the same objections against printing the rules in the manner proposed apply with equal force to the printing of the scheme? How, then, does it happen that the full scheme and standing rules should appear in print, in but one college paper, and that, too, as though they had been finally adopted? Was this announcement official...
...showing the good result of having few colleges. But those who talk in this way fail to take into consideration the vast difference in the state of social feeling of America and that of other countries. Here every man, no matter how poor, looks upon himself as having equal chances with his neighbor for social position or political honor. This is doubly impressed upon his mind by his life in public schools, and finally becomes a very part of himself. He is taught to believe that the only requisite to success is education, and that in this country there...