Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last the long-expected Elective Pamphlet has appeared. From a typographical point of view, it can hardly be called a success. By a mistake of the printer, the pamphlet appears under the title, "Account of the Graduate Department." The paper, also, is of very inferior quality. In fact it compares unfavorably with that of last year...
...does not give those who happen to possess good memories an unfair advantage over those who have worked as hard but cannot remember as well. The idea of returning the briefs to the juniors is an improvement over the course pursued last year, but it is still much inferior to the plan of giving a syllabus of the topic on the examination paper. The time and labor requisite for the preparation of three subjects is considerable, and, coming as the examination does at the busiest time of the year, it is evident that the attention bestowed on the subjects will...
...long distance events our time is somewhat slower, but in the short distance the records are about the same. In putting the shot we have done better, while the records in throwing the hammer show about an equal amount of ability. In the hurdle race we are still inferior.- Yale News...
...Association, but rather because of the lack of interest of men in college. The efforts made by the Athletic Association to arouse interest in the weekly contests they arranged, met with feeble responce and were abandoned. It is this lack of interest that has made the meetings this year inferior to those of former years." The editorial of yesterday was written in the same spirit as the one from which we have quoted and contains not the slightest criticism of the management of the H. A. A. No one realizes more fully than we the hard conscientious work that...
...familiar and appropriate to Athenian tombs. The second of the reliefs represents a bearded and middle aged man, with his staff resting on his left arm. The third represents a lady, extremely beautiful, whose right arm is lying gracefully upon her lap. Like the sitting figure on an inferior funeral bas-relief now in the Central Museum of Athens, she is represented in the act of raising delicately from her breast the frail fabric in which she is enveloped...