Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...essential points should be noticed by all who undertake this task. First, the tune should be simple, catchy, and above all else singable. Second, there should be strength of purpose and confident fighting spirit in the music. The standard of comparison will be the songs which we already have...
...question of who is the premier lawn tennis player of the United States is one open to much discussion. A well known player, whose name has not been announced, has prepared a list which while not official, may be interesting for purposes of comparison. R. N. Williams, 2d, '16, and W. M. Washburn '15 both find places among the first ten. The Transcript quotes as follows...
...promise to replace the Forum. But with the Economics Society, the Political Science Club, the Socialist club, the Speakers' Club, and other organizations of a like nature all vying with one another for popular support, the possibility of any one club developing sufficient prestige to even be worthy of comparison with the Oxford Union is only too evident...
...fall of 1912 there appeared in this column a long comparison of the work done in the Law chool by Harvard men and students from other colleges. The comparison was occasioned by the fact that in that year not one of the men elected to the Harvard Law Review Association was a graduate of Harvard College. After a careful and thorough discussion the CRIMSON concluded that "the recent Review elections indicate a real deterioration in the quality of work done by Harvard graduates in the Law School. Such a deterioration presents a problem which all Harvard men are called upon...
Kicking bears the same relation to football that artillery does to warfare, with the exception that it is possible in football to deliver the final stroke with kicking. What the use of artillery in modern warfare will mean in the end remains to be seen, but the comparison is made in the light of past experience. There is in kicking a unanimity of opinion not to be found in the forward pass. Kicking is not the "joker" that the forward pass is, for the reason that certain of its principles seem to be widely understood. It is the bulwark...