Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...William Pepper, ex-Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, who resigned last June, has issued his biannual report, covering the period between October, 1892, and June, 1894. In it Dr. Pepper makes a comparison between the University as it was when he became provost in 1881 and at the time of his resignation. In 1881 the University owned 15 acres, there were 981 students, and the fees received from them amounted to $92,701; in 1894 the acreage of the university was 54, the number of students 2180, and the fees $230,567. During his provostship were added the Wharton...
...impossible at this time to report more than an estimate of what the stroke is, for Mr. Watson's ultimate aims are not yet known and there is no basis of comparison with any crew except the 'varsity crew which rowed on the river last fall...
Among the individual candidates there is a great diversity of ability. Bullard and Fennessy at bow and No. 2, respectively, are conspicuous for excellent body work and a strong drive with the legs. In comparison with these men the rest are inferior, the inferiority culminating in No. 7 and No. 8, who seem to have neither the power nor the smoothness...
...recount of the votes for president of the Dining Association has been completed and shows that H. C. Lakin L. S. was elected. The delay has been caused by the necessity of carefully going over the ballots and verifying each vote by comparison with the list of members. The vote was as follows...
Camera Club.In addition to the sets of lantern slides from Chicago, Toronto and Syracuse, the Camera Club will this evening exhibit sets from Buffalo and Detroit, in all about three hundred. The exhibit will offer an interesting comparison between the work of the eastern and that of the western clubs...