Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Last year the Wesleyan game was cancelled because of bad weather. The Wesleyan nine this year appears to be strong, although no basis of comparison is offered between the two teams. Wesleyan has played but one game this year, defeating Springfield Manual Training School last Saturday by the score...
...charged for meals amounted to 963, of whom 918 were regular, 25 guests, and 20 transients, and the figures from March 1 to 10 show an increase of 171 members. The present membership of Memorial Hall is 1084, of whom 949 are regular and 139 transients, in comparison with an average membership of 988 during the first three months...
...lost. If a blanket ticket is put on sale for $7 or $8, admitting to all but the most important contests played by Harvard teams, it will sell fully as well as the present H. A. A. ticket. The price will be very low in comparison to the privileges given. Moreover, every man who does not buy will be at a disadvantage in attending the more important games...
...table of athletic figures for last year, published in the adjoining column, shows numerous variations from the table of the preceding year, which is published for purposes of comparison. The first item, "Care of Buildings and Grounds," is considerably greater than in 1905-06, due to the fact that the cost of painting the Stadium has been transferred to this account. Expenses on the general account are also larger because of certain increases in salaries and of the maintenance of two extra hockey rinks. Increase in receipts may be attributed to the interest account and collection of outstanding bills. Permanent...
...question, to the heart of the whole matter. By means of admirable selections the writer demonstrates Mr. Phillips's virtues and defects as a poet; and continuing classes him as a playwright--one versed in the theatrical--as opposed to a real dramatist--an objective student of character. The comparison with Shakespeare, urged for the purpose of bringing out Mr. Phillips's dramatic flimsiness, might easily have been made more illuminating by slightly profounder meditation...