Word: comparison
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small a part of the world we truly live in is represented by what speaks to us through the senses when compared with that vast realm of the mind which is peopled by memory and imagination, and with such shining inhabitants! These walls, these faces, what are they in comparison with the countless images, the innumerable population which every one of us can summon up to the tiny show-box of the brain, in material breadth scarce a span, yet infinite as space and time? and in what, I pray, are those we gravely call historical characters, of which each...
...great difference which exists between the elective systems at Harvard and Yale makes it almost impossible to find any common basis for comparison with our own statistics. The Yale figures are therefore given alone...
...their various phases. "A New England Mystic," by Carleton E. Noyes, gives some comment on the character of Jones Very, but largely as it showed itself through his poetry. "The Elizabethan and the Greek,- a Study in Lyric Poetry," by E. K. Rand, is, as its name implies, a comparison of the lyrics of the Greeks with those of the poets of England at the time of that nation's greatest prosperity. Following close on this comes C. F. A. Siedhof's "Notes on Heine"; and the series closes with "A Bit of Browning's Philosophy," the unknown author...
...course will be reviewed in two parts today as follows: English and French Constitutions at 2 p. m. United States and German Constitutions at 7 p. m. Printed outlines of the English Constitution and copies of the United States Constitution and Articles of Confederation will be furnished. A careful comparison of the constitutions will be made and former examination papers will be reviewed. The review will be held in Room 9, Roberts Hall Building, 15 Brattle street. Fee for each part $3.00, payable at each part. Gentlemen will please not open accounts...
...large number of tests on these pieces of apparatus are desired, both of men practiced in the various athletic sports and of those who have no special aptitude for, or training in them. It is hoped that a sufficient number of men may respond to make a comparison on basis of practice and ability possible. These tests will be carried on in the Physiological Laboratory of the Lawrence Scientific School, from 2.30 to 4.30, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays in January...