Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Norsemen, is divided in three periods: the heroic period up to 1030; the period of development from 1030 to 1100, and a third period from 1100 to 1200, during which all these legends were written down. In speaking of the Nibelungenlied, Professor Smith said there is no comparison between the Icelandic version and its present form, since the Icelandic is more powerful, grander, and more pleasing...
...comparison of the yearly number of students for the last five years shows the following results, indicating the growth of the college. The following table has been collated by the Princeton Club of New York...
...comparison or this year's catalogue with those of earlier years shows that more courses are being placed under the charge of young instructors than formerly. Not only are more young graduates employed by the college as assistants in laboratory work, correcting examination books, and similiar duties, but more are placed in positions of great responsibility, in charge of large courses. The work of most of the assistants seems to be well adapted to men who are studying in the graduate department or professional schools. It does not demand a great deal of time, or carry with it much responsibility...
...Page '92, spoke before the Electric club last evening on the types of stationary engines most suitable for running dynamos. The talk included an explanation of the principle of the steam engine, descriptions of governors indicators, etc., and finally a careful comparison of the different types of stationary engines. Mr. Page is the librarian of the club and has lately obtained a number of valuable publications from the most important companies, notably some photographs from the Ball Company, blueprints, charts, and engravings from the Harrisburg and Hamilton Corliss Companies, and catalogues from all the other concerns of any note. Many...
...Electric Lighting and Public Safety" is a call for greater precautions in the use of electricity, and showing that foreign countries are more careful than we. "Newspapers Here and Abroad," by E. L. Godkin is, as its title indicates, a comparison of our own with foreign methods, ours being chiefly newsgathering, true and false, whereas foreigners devote themselves more to editorial writing. Mr. Godkin's paper has no expression of contempt for our contemporaneous journalism, that the Nation so often and justly indulges in. "The Doctrine of States' Rights" is advocated by Jeff. Davis. Erastus Wiman writes on "British Capital...