Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...portion of the new gymnasium which should bring the most envy to the soul of the long-suffering Harvard man is that which is devoted to the baths. When one hears of twenty-one shower baths, he looks with rueful comparison at the accommodations which the Hemenway gymnasium at present offers. Besides this, there are Turkish, Russian, and ordinary baths. These are nickel plated, put in at an expense of $500 each, and are provided with thermometers to regulate the temperature of the water. Adjoining these showers are sweating and rubbing rooms, and a circular, hot air drying room with...
...good story - a Calabrian story - by Elizabeth Cavazza, who introduced herself so delightfully a month or so ago by a little thing in the Century called 'When Angry, Count a Hundred.' The present story is not as good as its predecessor, but it is good nevertheless. An interesting comparison of the Naulahka and the Wrecker occupies several pages with the result that the Wrecker receives no great praise, while its rival is judged 'one of the happiest and finest jests we have had for a long time.' The other articles in the number to be mentioned are the continuations...
...again in stories by the author of "Gallagher," who is very fond of portraying just such people, and the manner too in which they are spoken of, the suggestive little touches of style, are much the same. Nevertheless the story does not lose much even though it invites comparison with work of such acknowledged excellence. The conversation is well done, the boy is true to life, and the plot, though very improbable, is one of those that have pleased men ever since time began...
...Light that Failed," as Sophie is utterly unlike Bessie but cutting a picture to pieces with a palette-knife is very like blur with the same instrument, even when the one is done out of jealousy and the other for revenge, and "The Lilac Witch" suffers more from the comparison which it invites than does "Lord Angus." Still the story is much above the average, and is decidedly better than the last one by the same author, both in diction and form...
...days and will be the same in most respects as last year's, with the exception of numerous changes of the instructors in different courses. Several new courses have been added in the graduate department and in general much attention has been paid to this department. From a comparison of this and previous pamphlets the change and development of the college in the last few years is very apparent; formerly the studies were all grouped under a few general heads, but now with the divisions into courses for undergraduates and courses for graduates, starred courses and unstarred courses...