Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Graduate Club last evening, Professor Von Jagemann and Dr. Richards talked in an informal and thoroughly delightful manner of the customs of German universities, as they appeal to American interest. There is no comparison possible between German universities and American colleges. The German boy gains his training in nine years solid work in the gymnasium, as it is called. When he enters a university he leaves general education behind and devotes himself to one particular object...
...life of the student is very simple. They all live in plainly furnished rooms, in comparison to which the ordinary rooms in our dormitories would seem palatial. Every man rooms alone. Their meals are as frugal as those of the German people generally. There is a good deal of the naive and unsophisticated about the students; they are fond of simple amusements like walking in the country or attending the theatre. They take life easily and enjoy to the full all the good things in it. but in all they manifest a seriousness of purpose and soundness of mind...
...following statistics, compiled from the advance sheets of the Harvard catalogue, of the state representation at Harvard, will afford an interesting comparison with the corresponding statistics taken from the Yale News. The order of states is adopted in order to make a comparison with Yale easier. Under the heading Scattering in the Harvard list are included all students from countries outside North America with the exception of Japan...
...course in journalism may seem "delusive" at first glance,-even, perhaps, at a last glance. Yet the course at the University of Chicago has a practical side worth considering. It aims, in words of a member of the faculty "to put into just and effective comparison the different ideals and standard of journals in this country; and, again, to put into like comparison the different types of journalism prevailing in the United States on the one hand and in Great Britain on the other." In addition students will have experience under careful criticism in writing editorial articles and paragraphs...
...students from Harvard entering journalism is growing larger each year. The greater part have had no experience in this work and are ignorant of its nature and of the chances where it can be improved. The experience on a college paper is very little, it is true, in comparison to that which the infinitely greater work on city papers brings; but nevertheless the diligent and earnest work which a college journal calls for helps, even if it be a little, towards developing a good journalist. If this course at the University of Chicago does not try to cover too much...