Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This table gives a much fairer and, to Harvard, more favorable comparison of the growth of the universities. If this table is compared with the ones given in the Advocate for earlier years it will be seen how steadily and satisfactorily Harvard has grown in New York and the rest of the country...
Life at Amherst is so entirely different from life at Harvard that it is difficult to draw a comparison between the two colleges. Amherst men live under the restraint of faculty regulations so numerous that every hour feels its burden; compulsory church and chapel, compulsory gymnasium work, and a fixed allowance of absences from recitations, keeps the hand of the governing body continually before the students. The result is only partially successful; men feel in duty bound to take the full limit of allowed absences from recitations, and are continually striving to invent means to avoid their other compulsory tasks...
...Holmes' third paper of his "Over the Tea Cups," commences with a general talk of the company upon the subject of the last paper; then a witty comparison of Hadrian's hymn and Catullus' poem to Lesbia's sparrow, and the paper ends with a poem alluding to James Freeman Clarke a classmate of Dr. Holmes. The paper abounds in gentle satiric touches, which are full of the wisdom...
...first place, the Advocate took for comparison every fourth class from 1878 to 1890: covering twelve years instead of three. The Monthly gave figures for five, not three freshman classes. And the results, obtained independently by men working upon different sets of facts, were identical in their trend...
Thirdly, will the CRIMSON explain why a gain made by Yale is necessarily due to "accident?" What accident? What, by comparison, is the immutable law upon which the growth of Harvard rests? Is not this the attitude of the traditional ostrich, which buries its head in the sand when it gets into difficulties...