Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...committee's report, a comparison between Harvard and five other leading Eastern colleges shows Harvard to be far behind in library equipment, though leading all in number of volumes. The committee has sought to obtain from those most concerned information particularly in regard to three points: The relation of the special reference libraries to the central library; the possibility of separating "live" from "dead" books; the probable expediency of enlarging the present building as compared with erecting a new building...
...first game between the Seniors and Freshmen in the final series for the interclass hockey championship will be played this afternoon at 3 o'clock, probably on Jarvis Field. A comparison of the work of the two teams shows that a close contest may be expected. The line-up will be: 1902. 1905. Cook, f. f., Kernan. Metcalf, f. f., Callaway. Chaffee, f. f., Adams. Burgess, f. f., Prentice. Noyes, O'Connell, c.p. c.p., Wheeler. Stevenson, p. p., Sard. Peirce, g. g., Kendall...
...Candidates exhibits a similar result -- declining fortune for Harvard is followed twice by small losses and thrice by good gains, and rising fortune is followed once by a small loss, twice by small gains, and once by a large gain. The last four columns of the table permit a comparison between the entering classes at Harvard and those at Yale. In 1893 defeats and victories were even, and in the following academic year Harvard College lost twenty-six Freshmen and Yale college gained sixteen; the Lawrence Scientific School gained forty-six Freshmen and the Sheffield Scientific School gained twenty...
...over the total sales for the corresponding period last year. The sales of the Cambridge department amount to $115,852.85, an increase of $5,052.43 over the same period last year, and the sales of the Medical department amount to $21,126.48, a decrease of $3,681.28 in comparison with last year's sales. The decrease in the business of the Medical department is due almost entirely to the fact that owing to the increased requirements for admission to the Medical School the entering class is very small...
...great differences between the musical spirit of Germany and France in comparison with that of our own country is that music, and in fact all the arts, play a far larger part in the daily life of the people than with us. There is hardly a town in Germany of twenty thousand or more inhabitants which does not have an opera house with a local troupe giving continual performances. If a German could not go to the opera two or three times a week, he would feel that he was losing one of the greatest enjoyments in life...