Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While comparisons are always odious and, inconclusive, it is worth while to point out that Harvard has no consolidated employment report embracing all opportunities for financial assistance or self-help which are open to its students. The total Harvard effort, however, need not fear comparison with that of any other educational institution. Only it is well to consider facts not fancies in making such comparisons. J. W. D. Seymour...
Progressive. The way the third ticket ran may be estimated in two ways: 1) by comparison with hopes, aid, expectations; 2) by comparison with previous third party efforts...
...subject will be "A Comparison of Greek and Japanese Architecture." The lecture will be open to the public...
...happier creature than the Southern negro of the old type does not exist Carefree, without a thought of the morrow, his is the perfect joy of the eternal child. Yet his inefficiency as a workman defies all comparison. One never hears of a negro committing suicide. "But taint strange, Boss," says Rastus. "When a nigger gits into trouble, and starts thinkin, he just naturally goes to sleep." His childish joy is the product of a mind that does not function...
...comparison of the other three backs of each team gives Harvard an advantage. Miller, Gehrke, and Hammond outweigh their opponents by the startling amount of 29 pounds a man. That the Crimson backs are not deficient in speed, line plunging, or defense work is evident to those who have seen them in action. In all points but weight, however, Princeton comes close to being an equal in the backfield. Such an overwhelming difference in bulk cannot help but handicap the Tiger...