Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large attendance at some one debate. For example the attendance at the meetings when the gubernatorial candidacy of B. F. Butler was discussed was between 300 and 400; at the other debates during the year seldom more than 60 or 70 persons would be present. The same comparison applies, in a less degree, to the attendance at the debates during 1884-85; the discussion of presidential candidates brought out a very large audience, but the remaining debates were not nearly so well attended as have been the regular debates of the past half-year, when no question of unusual public...
...recent article in the New Englander entitled "Yale under President Porter," by Mr. Henry C. Kingsley, treasurer of the college has been commented on in the columns of the CRIMSON. The array of figures presented by Mr. Kingsley suggests a comparison with the changes wrought here during President Eliot's administration, which began two years earlier than did President Porter's. In 1869, when President Eliot was elected, the number of students in the university was 1097. At the end of the first five years the average enrollment was 1086; for the second five years, 1300; and for the third...
...purses. At the Springfield meeting was cited the case of a father who sent one son to Yale and the other to Amherst, and found the latter's bills the larger. Of course no generalization could be ventured upon one such individual case, but we suspect that a careful comparison would show that, however much the average expenditures of a class in the larger college may exceed the average in the smaller, the sum required by a self-respecting young man is not a great deal more in the one case than in the other...
...away' only two exercises per week out of twelve, - that is, rather more than 12 per cent. of the whole." At Yale, for seven weeks of last term, the absences of '89 men amounted only to 3.7 per cent. of the entire number of recitations. Prof. Ladd adds, "A comparison of the two systems as actually at work in Harvard and in Yale shows, then, this remarkable fact. The irregularity of the average Harvard student is from a little less than three to five times as great as that of the average Yale student. The former is off duty, either...
...coarse scale; the system I suggest will be less definite, but more correct and just, than the present system. And it will serve the purposes of the university in determining degrees and honors. But it will do away entirely with our system of class ranking, because no such individual comparison can be justly made under an elective system. Each man will simply get credit for what he has done, and he will therefore aim at true proficiency, in place of any false, superficial honor. The objection will here be made, that scholarships cannot be assigned with accuracy. And to this...