Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparison of this year's figures with these of 1926 shows clearly the present advance: Total Total Date Contributors Amount March 26, 1927 1,192 $41,401.25 April 4, 1926 431 29,484.50 June...
...lecture on the Churches of St. John Lateran at Rome, of the Nativity at Bethlehem, and of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. This lecture will be illustrated with slides chosen with especial care. The discussion, dealing with the almost naive early Christian monuments, will be of particular interest in comparison with Professor Edgell's, which has to do with a highly sophisticated style of architecture...
...idea. And it will not be applied to the Freshman Class. During these interims from daily attendance upon the old-time lectures and recitations, the Harvard plan is to substitute outside reading, apparently of a character that will make the old daily work seem an Elysium of ease by comparison. So the plan is not a 'let down" of work, but quite the contrary. As stated in the Harvard announcement of this change, it has been made because it was believed that Harvard teachers had too much to do and that the students would do better by independent study than...
...pity that muek-raking of this sort cannot be controlled. The only thing which might make the survey of any value to socioligists and others having a legitimate interest in the subject has been left out--a comparison of derelictions in student life compared with those outside. It is plainer than ever before that this publication is using the colleges as fair game for creating an illusion of gilded sin, just as magazines of an earlier age created the myths of "high society...
...limousine. This ovation was sincere. Critics hailed a triumph: The Henchman, they said was more than the greatest U. S. opera; it took rank with the great music of the world. Though Composer Taylor showed traces of Wagnerian influence, his music held enough ingenuous wealth to need no comparison, to point to far greater possibilities of creation...