Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tabular comparison is made upon curtain points between six large schools which habitually send boys to Harvard. The statistics embrace a period of eight years for the private, and ten years for the endowed and public schools. The scholarship shown in the entrance examinations and in their work for the four years is given. Facts prove that there is not so sure a connection between good work as a schoolboy and good work as a college student as there ought to be, many of the ill-prepared boys surpassing during college life many of the well-prepared. In the freedom...
...Alas, that the mutations of time should have deceived the hopes of these worthy gentlemen! For it cannot be doubted that Harvard has become essentially a city university. Not indeed a city university in the sense in which Columbia can be so called, but certainly a city university in comparison with rural or country colleges like Amherst or Williams...
...social life of the college and proceeds to give a "guide-book" description of some of the principal dormitories. In connection with the matter of the expense of living at Harvard Mr. Winkley says: "Harvard has often been called an expensive place, and not unjustly so, in comparison with other colleges, among the leading items of expense being room-rent. Few rooms rent for less than sixty dollars a year, and in the better class of buildings, like Matthews, Weld, or Holyoke, the average is from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars for the school year...
...secured their places. They treat it as an individual matter, where only their own interests are at stake. So long as they are able, even though in an indifferent condition of body, to maintain their superiority over rival aspirants, they are satisfied. With them it is a matter of comparison between their plaving and that of the substitutes who are ambitious to supersede them. Their maxim is, 'play better than the first substitute, and that is enough.' If that can be done without severe and faithful training, so much the more of a snap for them. While we think that...
...first of the series of Symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre was a great success in point of the size of the audience. The programme was a very interesting one, as the selections were made from at least three different schools of modern music, and gave a splendid opportunity for comparison and contrast. The Egmont overture was perhaps a little fast; it is a notable fact that the works of the older masters are not given with the same fire or care as the modern ones. It is a natural consequence of the present lack of competition in orchestra concerts...