Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boat called "The Bootleggers"; Thomas Benton's "New England." These subjects are indeed native. But if Mrs. Harriman has rendered an important service to art in her tri-national exhibition (and it is general opinion that she has), her service has been to demonstrate once more, by direct comparison, the fatuity of American painting...
...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 the various countries, the tendency toward world uniformity in education, and the problem of national individuality as affected by education...
...seems fair to give the Mayas the palm for culture existing in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans A comparison with the Incas presents some difficulties, but as Dr. Spinden points out. "The Peruvians had no system of hieroglyphic writing and no carefully elaborated calendar." They were thus unable to conserve intellectual gains. But the Mayas had a well developed system of hieroglyphs, mostly ideographic, that is consisting of abbreviated pictures of the thing intended or of an object associated with...
...Rosetta Stone has been discovered to make the decipherment easier by permitting comparison of the hieroglyphs with another language. Nor is it likely that such an said to interpretation will be found, although it is quite possible that more codices will be discovered...
...rate, there are numerous-inscriptions to be recovered. The more of these sources our experts have for study and comparison, the easier will be the task of deciphering the many hieroglyphs that still baffle...