Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Snedden's comparison of scholastic records of the athletes and non-athletes of the Class of 1927 tends to confirm the general run of careful observation. Men engaged in sports do have slightly lower grades than the average of the rest of the class, but the difference is so slight that it means little more than that between a C plus and a C in one of four courses. On the other hand in regard to the number of men who actually graduate there is a considerable distinction in ravor of the athletes. Such a variation might be caused...
Harvard need not fear the besmirching of her name either by the actions of an infinitesimal minority or by external maledictions, and certainly not from this lonely testimony against her. Like the man who bites a dog, student actions, particularly careless ones, receive ridiculous publicity in comparison to the actions of other men. This latest undesirable criticism, neither unbiased nor constructive, is easily recognizable as more evidence of the readiness of Boston and Cambridge to betray their latent antagonism in a town-and-gown alignment which is marked most distinctly on occasions like the present...
There was a comparison: "Grant was more magnanimous than Mr. Hoover. He left us [Southerners] our horses; Hoover took our shirts...
...stretch of rails, from Brindisi, Italy, to Boulogne, France, the Italian Government supplied a special train and officials cooperated to the end that it should cross Europe at an average speed of 35 miles an hour. Though impressive to Italians, Swiss and Frenchmen these record facilities seemed ridiculous in comparison with the fact that in Great Britain the famed "Flying Scotsman" chuffs from London to Edinburg daily at an average speed...
...Weddell Seas. There are mountain ranges. They may be extensions of the Andes; they may be related to the formations of the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand. Those Antarctica mountains and the tremendous ice cap help make the South Pole regions the heaviest part of the Earth. In comparison, the North Pole is light. Melting of South Polar ice may account for the axial wobbling that the Earth goes through during its revolution. Commander Byrd will try to find out. He will also study the minute plant and vegetable life that lives in the local ice; and, very importantly...