Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Pennsylvania claims the intercollegiate football championship this year. Her claim rests on the following comparison: Yale played a tie game with Brown, Cornell defeated Brown, Harvard beat both Brown and Cornell, and Pennsylvania defeated Harvard, Brown and Cornell, the last named by the decisive score...
...principal aids in obtaining these facts about old French pronunciation is the comparison with sounds of these words as transferred into other languages. English is not the only language valuable for this purpose. Mediaeval German, on borrowing French words, spelled them so as to indicate their pronunciation. The other helps are the study of Latin and the medieval rhymes...
This list of statistics of the various freshman classes is of interest though not an absolutely safe means of comparison, as some of the figures represent the entering class of the university while others simply mean the academic class...
...following figures are interesting in comparison with those of Yale University, published recently in the CRIMSON...
...afternoon. The figures do not include "dropped freshmen"; on the other hand a small fraction of the students admitted will not appear in the catalogue list of the freshman class. The figures cannot be accepted as showing the exact size of the entering class, but they show an interesting comparison with the corresponding figures of last year...