Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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More than half of the institutions in the United States which profess to give university education and confer degrees now admit women on equal terms with male students...
...York Tribune, after stating that the University of London has admitted lady graduates on equal terms to its "Convocation" and now grants degrees to women, says: "Harvard and Yale are invited to consider this fact...
...Nation pays the following high compliment to a Harvard professor: "Prof. Paine has written a considerable number of works for the concert stage, among them an oratorio, a mass, two symphonies and a concert overture; but none of these, in our opinion, equal in originality of conception and scholarly treatment his music to Sophocles' tragedy, which to our taste is the most finished specimen of musical workmanship produced in this country. . . Prof. Paine's music is his own. It has individuality of style, and his themes impress themselves on the memory at once, and gain a beauty by repeated hearing...
Next March, Turkey's old and clumsy system of weights and measures gives way to the metric system. The unit of the new system is called the archius, and is equal to the French metre...
...gifts of Mr. George I. Seney, of Brooklyn, to Wesleyan University now amount to $550,000, and he proposes to give $100,000 more, on condition that an equal sum be raised to increase the endowment...