Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...largest part of the increase in prices during the past year has come from the great increase in prices of raw materials and in wages. But comparison shows that in every case the combination has been able to take advantage of the situation much better than separate corporations could have done...
...justified in saying that "Randall Hall is run entirely by students of Harvard University." The statement that the buying at Randall is as economical as that of the stewards at Memorial and the best Boston hotels is of little value unless we are told on what lines the comparison is made. No list being published, we are unable to tell what prices are being paid...
...Industrial Home, from ten to twelve Harvard men are engaged in work, in comparison with from six to eight last year...
...site for the projected Union Club-house, my opinion is that the site now occupied by the "Co-operative is the poorest possible. Down on that noisy square, with no pleasant outlook, and squeezed into a corner,--the fact of this being in the College grounds is, in comparison with these disadvantage, of little weight. The location next, on the Foxcroft grounds, is a good one, were there no other available or mentioned; but it is at present away from the line of main movement, though not out of touch, being hard by Memorial Hall and many of the other...
...hope to meet the increasing need by receiving increased endowments is natural, and in view of the immense sums recently given to new Western colleges, one wonders why the oldest is by comparison overlooked, but is there not a possible source of income, in the increase of students fees which has not been explored? Everyone knows that the fees paid by a student only meet a fraction of the cost of his tuition, but is it known whether the parents of our students are able and willing to bear a larger proportion of this cost? There are colleges where...