Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following list gives the standing at Yale of the editors of the college papers, as shown by the appointments held by them. A list of the appointments held by the athletic men was published a short time ago and a comparison of the two is interesting. Sixty-eight per cent. of the editors have received appointments and sixty four per cent. of the athletes, thus showing that the athletes push their literary brethren very close...
...covered as high as you can reach with shelves. on which stand the millions of slips relating to different usages of words in all phases of English literature. On other shelves are all the leading dictionaries of the language, open at the particular word under consideration, so that comparison may be made without any needless delay...
...regular crews are daily at work and considerable activity is shown in the preparation for future races. In comparison with past years it may be remarked that more than the average amount of care seems to be expended in the bare rudiments of the motions. Not one of the crews has begun to bend the arms and they all of course row with fixed seats. It would be misleading to try to make any criticism whatever upon the style displayed, for so many things will have to be added to the stroke that before many weeks the appearance...
...foreign culture,-one who could exemplify to us new ideas, and give us a glimpse of methods which our independence or sell-conceit, whichever we may choose to call it, may not permit us to adopt entirely but which cannot fail to improve our own by example or comparison. The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, in 1886, gave Harvard men the opportunity to have a long series of lectures by the delegate of Rome, Professor Rodolfo Lanciani. Smce then Professor Drummond has been the only foreign University man to visit us and we therefore greet such lectures as that...
...Editorial We" is of another character. It is bright and clean and suffers only by comparison with the story which precedes it. The plot is original and the problem of rival journalism and united hearts is solved in a new and striking manner...