Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board of directors are filled by ballot. The superintendent is appointed by the directors for a fixed term and at a fixed salary, which for the coming year will be upwards of a thousand dollars. The total expenses of the society for the year are very small in comparison with the amount of business transacted. The leading items being the salary of the superintendent, rent of store, express bill, printer's bill and postage...
...yards dashes, in the Harvard athletic meeting, is a cousin of Wendell, the Harvard sprinter of '82, and in running resembles him greatly. He has won every event he has contested at Harvard with ridiculous ease, and bids fair to be a phenomenon. He runs easily, and in comparison with his antagonists seems to go no faster than a jog. Delafield promises well for the mile run. '85 distinguished itself in this meeting by receiving only one prize, the second in the half-mile run '86 won six first and two second prizes; '83, four first and one second...
...playing or wishes to see it equal that of a professional nine; all that the nine itself professes to care about, and certainly all that most of us want it to do, is to maintain a high position among college nines. Any other ambition, except to stand well in comparison with college competitors, is undesirable in any branch of athletics, for it tends sooner or later to turn sports into means of money-making. The death blow to college athletics is much more likely to come from professionalism than from faculty interference." This opinion it seems to us is gradually...
...their strength and method, and this improvement must come if they are to be successful in their game with Exeter next Saturday. Whether their first efforts prove successful or unsuccessful they must not let momentary exultation or discouragement affect their work, but must consider no victory important in comparison to the coveted one over the Yale freshmen, and no defeat so much to be provided against as defeat by them. '86 has everything before them; they enter upon their work backed by the interest of the college. May they realize their position, and by faithful work come out successful...
...Nation thinks that "Owen Wister's 'The New Swiss Family Robinson' (Cambridge : C. W. Sever) hits the mark as a satire, but for sustained humor it suffers by comparison with Rollo's Cambridge adventures, that earlier trophy of the Harvard Lampoon. On the other hand, 'College Cuts' (White & Stokes), chosen from the Columbia Spectator, a college paper with a humorous corner or corners, compares well with the larger and more heterogeneous collection of designs from the Lampoon. There is more chic and a higher average quality in the drawing. Politics are altogether eschewed in favor of collegiate and social topics...