Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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During the last three weeks the class crews have been getting into final shape for the race next Friday. It is difficult to make any comparison as to the relative speed of the different crews as none of them have rowed together. The Senior crew, which during the early part of the season developed rapidly, has lately shown a tendency to shorten the stroke at the finish. On Thursday Johnson, who has been rowing at 3, changed places with Joralemon...
...University baseball team will play Syracuse University this afternoon on the Freshman diamond, Soldiers Field, at 4 o'clock. As this is the first year that the University team has played Syracuse, it is impossible to form a comparison of the nines. Judging from its defeat of Hobart on Friday by a score of 23 to 0, the Syracuse team is unusually strong...
...University baseball team will play its first game of the season with the University of Vermont this afternoon on the Freshman diamond, Soldiers Field, at 3.30 o'clock. As neither team has yet played a game this season it is impossible to from an accurate comparison of the nines. Vermont, however has a better team than in several years...
European governments, Professor Willcox said, have long realized the importance of vital statistics, which the United States did not seriously consider until the last census. On the records then obtained, however incomplete, we may base a comparison of the populations of Europe and the United States. Europe, which comprises only one-fifteenth of the total land area of the world, supports one-fourth of its population. At present the rate of increase of population in the United States is nearly twice as large as that of Europe, but the two are gradually approximating. He then went on to show that...
...half-courses are announced for the second half-year. Government 21, given by Mr. E. M. Parker on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 2.30, will be a comparison of the administrative systems of the United States and one or more of the several states, with those of France and some other continental country. The important differences in the laws relating to the action of these different administrations will be taken up. A knowledge of French will be required...