Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Goethe's "Egmont" must be read outside of class before the mid-years by members of German 4. "Ephigenie auf Tauris" will be real in class in the same time. The next theme, due on January 19th, is to be a comparison of the characters Egmont and Oranien in "Egmont...
...editorials are mostly on fugitive topics. One of them deals with Mr. Winsor's letters to the Nation and particularly with his comparison between the interest shown in lectures in Scotch and in American Universities...
...second, Yale's past prowess in athletics. The tendency of Andover towards Harvard is somewhat from similar causes. The Andover men here have been doing some very beneficial "missionary" work for Harvard at their old school. The Andover Club here, to be sure, is energetic, and shines brightly by comparison with the quondam Exeter Club; but it is not the work of the Andover Club here so much as it is the individaul efforts of the men which have gradually turned Andover students Cambridgeward. As a matter of fact, the Andover men here have taken every opportunity to go back...
...presented and discussed. Tonight there is a similar meeting in the Geological department, while in numerous other ones, such as in that of Classical Philology and of Philosophy, though the regular meetings are not announced in the calendar, the seminary work constantly done is of high grade. A continual comparison of the calendar with the corresponding numbers of previous years is more and more gratifying to a Harvard man as time goes. He watches the evolution of stray lectures into organized series and seminary meetings and realizes as he could not otherwise what work is being done here...
...coast of Guinea while going for more slaves; in Colonel Jack, he chose a while slave bound to toil under the "apprenticeship" system of the American colony of Virginia. The style is exactly that of the more celebrated work, and presents the life of the slave in comparison with that other great novel which deals with the fortunes of a slaveholder. The book is edited and abridged by Edward Everett Hale, a fact which needs no criticism...