Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seeing. Michigan's team does not seem to be quite as strong as usual this year, but it is undoubtedly strong enough to make Harvard work hard. The fact that day before yesterday they played Princeton and yesterday Yale, will make the game a valuable one for purposes of comparison...
...been in the past, and only by hard work can the cup remain another year in Cambridge. The men need the support of the college, and as they leave tomorrow morning nothing will be more encouraging than to hear hearty cheering from a crowd of fellow students. A comparison of the records made in the games of the different colleges will show some thing of the outcome of the contests at New York, yet it is doubtful if some of the records made in other colleges are correct...
...last annual report of the college by comparison with previous reports brings out some rather interesting and decidedly significant facts as to the relative amount of time spent in the college on different studies. Statistics of this kind cannot be exact. They are based on the number of men taking respective courses, either elected or prescribed, and on the estimate held by college authorities of these courses. They give, however, a fair notion of the tendencies developed; and from 1825, the date of the first report issued, show an uninterrupted progress from the ancient to the modern, and from realms...
...teams are much more evenly matched this year than last, but a comparison of the records made by Harvard and Yale in the different events in recent meetings seem to indicate that Harvard's chances are much the better. But there are always surprises in store for both sides and the following calculations are made with a full realization of the uncertainty of such predictions...
...company was a signal for great confusion and fright. The weird quality, of which Thayer is such a master, is very prominent in this whole opera, and readily suggests his subject. Like most of his music this Overture cannot be described, as so much music is nowadays, by comparison with a smooth, gliding stream; there are in it several themes separate and distinct...