Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ranking first in point of numbers, with 680, Ohio second, 162, Illinois third, 121, and New York fourth, 117. There are 15 students from Massachusetts and also a number from the Canadian provinces and other foreign countries. Both sexes are admitted, but the number of women is small in comparison with the males. The department of literature, science and the arts most nearly corresponds to our under-graduate department, and the scientific school degrees of different kinds are given, partly for proscribed, partly for elective work - the elective courses are very considerable in variety and range. The expenses are small...
Sophomore Themes. - Theme III. due Jan. 12. Subjects: 1. "Gray's Elegy" turned into prose. 2. Description of the telephone. 3. The story of "Paul Revere." 4. Comparison of the views presented in Bacon's essay on "The True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates," with those in Sumner's oration on "The Grandeur of Nations...
...growth of a city in the far West. The college was incorporated by the State with full power to grant such honors, degrees, and diplomas as are granted by any university or college in the United States. In appearance, the course of instruction does not suffer in comparison with any of the New England colleges. - [Nation...
...Jake 's a reg'lar pirick, but thet blamed pedlar did rake him daown well," admitted Metcalf complacently. "I declar' to 't, I wish the Widder Hannam could ekil it. Some folks thinks their own flesh 'n blood ain't no better 'n" - (casting about for an original comparison) - "better 'n - dirt...
...purpose, says ???, "to make a comparison between these two games." If he had made the comparison, he would have seen how much the radical difference in their nature affects the present point of dispute. Lacrosse, like every other college game, except tennis, needs but a single field of fixed dimensions. To tennis, as a whole, there are no limits, except the limits set by the number of students in the College; for one or two courts are not tennis. Take away twenty of the courts on the fields, and tennis would still be a game at Harvard. The present question...