Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Critic has just published the result of the balloting for an American Academy. We publish it below for the convenience of our readers who may wish to make a comparison. The result of the Harvard ballot is reprinted...
...From a comparison of the crews we get the following result: At present '87 is the heaviest crew, '86 the most skillful, '85 the strongest, and '84 rows the fastest for a short distance. The result of the race will show whether a professional, or the "Harvard" stroke is better for an eight-oared crew in a two-mile race...
...without a head can hardly be a success, and we are afraid the department in question is hardly an exception. The supporters of modern languages at Harvard should see to it that they have something to offer in place of the instruction they wish to do away with. A comparison between our Greek and German departments could hardly assist the self-called "party of progress," and we are afraid this hold is true to a large extent in the schools...
PARALLEL BARS.The first event was a contest on the parallel bars. The entries were T. C. Bachelder, L. S., and M. M. Kimball, '86. The event was fairly well contested, but, in comparison with the contests of former years, it was not nearly as good an exhibition as usual. It was won by Mr. Bachelder...
...lecturer began the comparison of the two, by saying that if the emotion of sympathy be, as many have thought, the true basis of moral action, then the utilitarian view would appear to be the only right one. Sympathy with suffering would increase with the suffering that was the object of sympathy, and would estimate it as a mass. But is sympathy the real basis of moral conduct? One of the best arguments in favor of mere sympathy as the principle of morals is Schopenhauer's. He insists that sympathy or pity is unselfish, is in fact the only...