Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with Worcester Academy this afternoon at 3 o'clock at Worcester. The Freshman backfield is now in a more settled condition, and it is expected that today's game will be marked by improvement in team work. Worcester Academy outweighs the Freshman team, but there is little basis for comparison, since the Freshmen defeated Andover and lost to Groton, whereas the Academy eleven was beaten by Andover and won from Groton...
...Brookline Country Club early last week with a squad of 20 men. All the men who will play today have had some experience in tournament play and should make a good showing. As neither the University nor the Williams team have played any matches this spring, a comparison of the teams is impossible...
...lectures today and next Wednesday, Mr. Copeland will discuss Defoe as the author not only of "Robinson Crusoe", but of "The Journal of the Plague", "Moll Flanders", and other less known works. The discussion will involve brief comparison of Defoe with other masters of illusion in prose fiction...
...Freshman basketball team will play the Yale freshmen in the Gymnasium this evening at 8 o'clock. No accurate comparison of the teams can be made, but both have good records and a close game, therefore, is expected. Yale is strong, as they have won seven out of twelve games played, and have twice beaten the Columbia freshmen by decisive scores...
...other Celtic peoples. In summing up their characteristic traits he pointed out the craving for adventure which has constantly lead them from the east to the west, from the old world to the new. They became greater navigators than the Phoenicians or the Scandinavians, and Homer's Odessey in comparison with St. Brandon's voyages seems but a commonplace trip. No race has been so endowed in the creation of fiction as the common peasants of Brittany and Ireland, who excel the ancient poets in weaving imaginative tales, such as the Arthurean cycle...