Word: weaker
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...become candidates for higher degrees in different American universities, thereby solving the question of migration, which has become an important issue with the Federation of Graduate Clubs; second, in raising the opinion entertained abroad of our own Doctor's degrees; third, in raising the standard of our own weaker institutions...
...stories and poems in the current number of the Advocate are facile but superficial as usual. Ordinarily a number contains a leading piece, which, by drawing favorable comments to itself, serves to buttress the remaining weaker portions of the paper. But in this, the New Year's number, there is no article which is better than the others, all are fair, but none are deserving of much praise...
Professor Strobel says: "One can not help sympathizing with the Boers as the weaker and struggling for independence, but in view of the great interest Great Britain has in South Africa and the evident desire on the part of the Boers to establish an independent republic as evinced in Kruger's policy since 1881, Great Britain is acting as any other nation would act under the circumstances. This is explained by the fact that the importance of the Dutch element in the British colonies would seriously endanger Great Britain's future possession of those colonies. The question is a racial...