Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With no desire to standardize undergraduate activities in the various colleges, realizing that each college must, to a great degree, solve its own problems, the officers of the Federation nevertheless believe that only through cooperation, through comparison of aims and the means of their attainment, can the students in many colleges and universities of the country make their efforts toward bettering conditions at their particular colleges, in the best sense, effective...
...Nibelungenleid, it has been said, is the Iliad of the Germanic races, and this comparison, though only a general one, never the less comes close to the truth. Granted that it is crude in some parts and lacks the balance and proportion of the Homeric epic, yet, says Professor J. G. Robertson, "neither in the Iliad nor the Odyssey--nowhere, indeed, in the epic poetry of any people--has the tragic movement of events been depicted upon such a sublime scale as in the second part of the Nibelimgen...
...Dual-Valve Six, know that the Fierce-Arrow engine develops more than 100 horsepower. These owners must also have noticed that although Fierce-Arrow has been recognized as one of the finest automobiles .since the early days of the industry, no mention was made of it in the comparison of prices given in the footnote, although these prices range from...
There is one other comparison that occurs to me between American and British universities, a comparison which may be of less general interest, but one which interests me particularly. It is a comparison of the American and British methods of teaching science. I am myself a former professor of chemistry and I am now in this country addressing the Institut of Politics on the subject of "Chemistry and World Peace", so I have good cause to study the relative methods of scientific instruction...
...comparison to the way many Englishmen feel and talk about the U. S., the Kipling "rebuke" by allegory and innuendo actually was "frank and familiar." But Englishmen who feel and talk otherwise took comfort from the fact that, though loud, Mr. Kipling is not laureate. In his heyday he was most useful, hymning England's dominion over palm and pine, glossing British exploitation by soul-stirring references to the White Man's Burden, making Empire-Building a very real, brutal, glorious thing for schoolboys to dream about. As late as last spring, during the coal strike, his first...