Word: second-class
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Such a state of things is a positive harm. It is not merely that the University furnishes education of second-class character, but it prevents many bright men who are capable of a first-class education from receiving it elsewhere, by persuading them or their parents that what it has to furnish is just as good. There is a large number in every college in regard to whom it makes little difference whether the opportunities furnished them are first or second-class. They will get about as much from one as the other. But the 'remnant,' the bright men with...
...truism at every college that the best examinee does not always mean the best man. Instances are ready at hand where a second-class man is acknowledged to be better than a first-class man, and I have often heard it remarked that "it is a fluke for the right man to get a fellowship...
...postmaster general has recommended to Congress that the postage on all second-class matter be abolished...
...Spirit of the Times calls the Oxford-Cambridge race "this annual exhibition of second-class amateur rowing...
Snodkins claims that he is a mailed knight - it requires so many stamps to carry him through. Second-class matter, perhaps...