Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Since then much attention has been paid the matter, until now Mr. Bolles has gotten together the statistics of a portion of the class of 91, which is of great interest by comparison with the previous work. Although many of the conditions existing in 1887, are still the same, there are now many modifying influences which materially alter the yearly expenditures of students. Then there was no Foxcroft Club, no "Twenty-One Club," no Loan-Furniture Association, nor were there over six hundred boarders at Memorial Hall. Now these newly formed clubs and associations and the reduction in the weekly...
...Story of a Boys' Club," describing how a crowd of two hundred young loafers were enticed to join the Club, then how they were interested and finally set to work at useful occupations. A very good article is "Cervantes, Zola, Kipling and Co." by Brander Matthews. It is a comparison and a criticism of these three great novelists, each of whom has written masterpieces which are as widely separated as it is possible for novels to be. Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, is the father of story tellers "when we see Fielding's Parson Adams, or Scott's Antiquary...
...Then, too, the objection to the professional school men is based on the further ground that teams admitting them have a range of choice extending over about eight years, nearly the full extent of a man's efficiency as an athlete. There can be no just comparison between such teams and teams chosen from a range of four years, and those four years at the very beginning of a man's athletic efficiency...
...there be two teams in such universities as can support them, one including professional school men and the other drawn exclusively from the college department; but let the teams that meet each other be on substantially the same footing if there is to be any comparison. I do not think that Wesleyan will be at all likely to recede a particle from the position already taken by the intercollegiate association...
...better illustration of the wisdom in appointing a Graduate Treasurer and Manager could be had than the reports of the financial standings of the different teams for last year. A summary of the expenses and receipts is given below. It will be seen by a comparison with figures of previous years that there has been a constant tendency to increase the expenditures, a necessary result of the present system of management and of the competition which exists between college teams. A recapitulation of the total expenses and receipts follows...