Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...games, at Hamilton Park, New Haven, Conn., May, 19, 1883, H. S. Brooks, Jr., Yale, ran a quarter-mile in 50.2-5 seconds; but this was on a half-mile trotting-track, measured 3 feet from the pole, and performances made there cannot be accepted as genuine records, in comparison with times made on paths measured in accordance with amateur athletic law. [Spirit...
...Comparison of the Financial Systems of France, England, Germany and the United States. Tu., at 2, counting as a half course. Professor Dunbar...
...opposed to the system, but they are in the minority by a "large majority." The ladies who have graduated from here, are many of them holding prominent positions at various points. Six members of the present faculty of Wellesley College, including the president, are graduates of this university. A comparison of the number this year with last year's attendance of ladies in the several departments, shows 174 this year and 184 last year. The total number of students 1440. I do not attribute the falling off, however, to opposition on part of faculties and students to the system...
...same scale should be used in all other departments for marking forensics that is used in the English department, so that the rank list in forensics should not be headed by a number of hundreds obtained by men who are not good writers, and whose work would not stand comparison with that of men far below them on the rank list...
SOPHOMORE THEMES.Theme V. is due April 17. Subjects: 1. A Criticism of some recent popular Novel. 2. An Account of the Tertiary Coal in the United States. 3. Gortschakoff. 4. Political Career of Daniel Webster. 5. The Correspondence between Emerson and Carlyle. 6. A Comparison of Schiller's "Song of the Bell" with Longfellow's "Building of the Ship." 7. A Description of an old New England Town. 8. A short story...