Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prepared to absorb as much academic and worldly wisdom as came their way. Neither was averse to a good time. The greatest difference is in the tense of the verb with which you describe fathers and sons: one got it, the other is getting it. The truth of any comparison seems to reduce itself to this: undergraduates of today are more numerous and may have to work harder than those of yesterday, but the motives and capabilities of the two are almost identical...
...Significance. Here is an Elysian Held of fantasy out of which one will flush any number of gorgeous poetical pheasants, sly ironical foxes, and profoundly philosophical serpents. Shakespeare's Tempest is the most convenient comparison for beauty of writing. Feminism, immaculate conceptions and modern democracies are the chief butts of satire. Such a book has not been written since La Revolte des Anges...
...Comparison of the work of today's rivals against the Quakers seems to give Yale the edge. Brown's far-famed running attack failed to put the ball-across the Pennsylvania goal line, although the Providence players had four chances to score. Yale, however, completely out-played for two and a half periods, rose in its might and tore through Penn, for two touchdowns. Only fumbles prevented it from getting a third...
...comparison predicted by the CRIMSON between the 113 points scored against the Green by Yale and the 29 by the Crimson, proved justified. A fortnight later, the Crimson travelled to New Haven and lost the fourth game of its schedule of 11, to the Blue outfit, 42 to 0. The game according to the account in the CRIMSON, drew "spectators to the number of 2000. Among them were about thirty Harvard men, who went down from Cambridge, and several other graduates, who had come on with ladies from New York, Boston, and elsewhere...
...original draft of the opening chapters of Conrad's "Lord Jim," one of the author's most brilliant psychological studies of character. The paper is much interlined, and shows what extensive changes were made by the author before the final draft was sent to the publishers. A comparison of the manuscript with the printed page is made easy by the way the manuscript is placed in the Treasure Room exhibit, the original draft and a printed volume being placed side by side...