Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale News publishes a summary of the college appointments just received by the editors of the college papers. A comparison with the figures at Harvard may be interesting. The appointments received by the senior editors of each Yale paper and of the corresponding Harvard papers are given below...
President Eliot spoke before the Graduate Club last night but specially requested that no report be made. His subject was "A Comparison of Typical American Colleges...
...Told at the House of Tunn-Chwing" is much poorer. It is far more ambitious in its nature, as it is a relation of the incoherent ramblings of an opium-smoking woman, shattered by the insidious habit which has mastered her. As such, it immediately invites comparison with Rud-yard Kipling's "At the Gate of the Hundred Sorrows," to which it bears much similarity in conception and to which, it is almost needless to say, it is infinitely inferior. And for several faulty English constructions in the opening paragraph, there is not the excuse of delineating an opium eater...
...perhaps unfortunate that Mr. McCulloch's "Sonnet" should appear in the same number as the poems just under discussion for, although good, it cannot but suffer by comparison with the other five. The first eight lines suggest Blanco White's well-known sonnet, "Mysterious Night...
...would especially urge all men who have not made arrangements to attend the Glee Club Concert tonight to attend the College Conference meeting. It will be a long time before we have another opportunity to hear English and American life compared by a man so thoroughly qualified to make comparisons on the subject, and by one who will be so frank and so just. The comparison gains in interest of course because it is made by a cultivated Englishman who has lived among us long enough really to know us; and it is made particularly interesting for Harvard men because...