Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When the very moderate grade of the Harvard College admission examinations is considered, it seems absurd that the average age of the entering classes should be close to nineteen years; yet such is still the case. Comparison with foreign countries in this respect is mortifying. In England, France, of Germany, boys of sixteen, or at the most seventeen, are as far advanced in their education as are college freshmen here. More than this, what they have learned they are familiar with in a way unknown to the boy who has here squeezed through college examinations which are often the sole...
Many important facts regarding the distribution of plants and the relationships of our species to those of more favored climates were presented by the lecturer, and a comparison was drawn between our attractive spring flowers and the flowers in the tropics. The comparison left no doubt that in point of attractive coloring, the flowers of temperate regions far excel those of the equatorial belt. The gorgeous highly-colored orchids of the tropics are comparatively rare, and the most brilliant are in secluded nooks or cling as epiphytes to the higher branches of the loftiest trees, well out of sight...
...necessary for purposes of offense. - (a) Prevention of European interference with America. - (b) Necessary in case of war: Comparison of Navies in Herbert's Report...
...Yale News has recently brought about rather an animated discussion of Yale's compulsory chapel exercises, the principle of which it undertakes to defend, though finding severe fault with its working in practice. The facts brought out by the discussion furnish a basis for interesting comparison between the Yale compulsory and the Harvard voluntary system of religious worship...
...that have preceded it. Although in actual numbers the exhibition of this year is somewhat smaller than that of last year, its artistic and technical value is far greater. The prize pictures of former years are also hung in the present exhibition, and form a basis for comparison with the best pictures taken this year...