Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...analogy supplied by such subjects as comparative religion and comparative literature, the first course will proceed to develop principles of comparison in the study of education. The course will deal with the fundamental unity of education, the modifying influences of geological, ethnological, social and economic conditions, the actual differences in the educational systems of various countries, the tendency toward world uniformity in education, and the problem of national individuality as affected by education...
...that women give less to charity than men. Reason: a woman's giving power is usually dependent upon what her husband gives her to give. And, said I: 'A man who is generous personally to appeals often keeps his wife on a sum for her own donations that, by comparison, is a pittance.' This is why movements appealing primarily to women receive few notably large gifts...
...Freshman statistics show a drop of 101 men in comparison with the report of last year when 935 Freshmen and provisional men were examined...
...have proctors in squeaking boots walking up and down an examination-room. It is annoying, also, to have two proctors stand behind you and converse in tones so, exquisitely modulated that you catch just half their conversation. But, great as these annoyances are, there is one other in comparison with which they sink into insignificance. It has frequently happened that as soon as a number of men had finished their papers, the books were seized by some proctor, who after reading until he came to a passage that seemed to him ridiculous, would call a fellow-proctor to enjoy...
...asks why we intervene. It is because of our extraordinary size, population, and wealth in comparison with neighboring states, the strategic relation of the Caribbean lands to our own shores and the necessity of defending the Panama Canal. This paramount interest has no connection with the Monroe Doctrine. Other countries are free to invest in Central America, but we must see that the Republics do not give European powers a chance to intervene on account of misbehavior...