Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...heart of every student, the championship both of the bat and of the oar - in a great measure due to the leaders which '78 has furnished, but in everything that makes up a university reputation, and especially in its essential feature, good scholarship, the graduating class will bear comparison with its immediate predecessors, and these, it is well known, fully sustained the renown of their Alma Mater. Although the summa cum laude was not attained by any member of the class, it is well known that one at least came so near as only to miss it; and to another...
...Boston Bicycling Journal is quite interesting, and gives the comparative time of horses and bicycles over long distances, the comparison being strongly in favor of the bicycles...
...rich or poor, for notable attainments at school and at the university, and of providing for the comfortable support of able young men, rich or poor, for several years after they have left the university; unless, in the mean time, they should have come to the conclusion, from a comparison of the results of the English method with the results obtained by other nations, that there are means of promoting piety and learning more effectual than that of presenting money to the youthful mind as the most appropriate reward of scholarship...
Having made this assumption, we then attempted to show in a few words that we had not much good music here, using Yale and Amherst, where music is generally acknowledged to be good, as standards of comparison, not as places setting a fashion that it might be well to adopt at Harvard...
...objection (which has been urged) that it was not proper to compare Harvard with Amherst and Yale, we can only say that, if we did not suffer by the comparison, such objections would not be entertained for a moment. Who hesitates to compare Harvard as a boating college with Yale...