Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Moliere ranks as the greatest of all French writers, as does Shakspere of English and Goethe of German, was the contention of Professor C. H. C. Wright '91, yesterday afternoon in the fourth lecture of the series on five great authors. Further comparison, Professor Wright pointed out, was futile because each nation thinks its own greatest writer to be supreme over all others...
Cynic Bromfield-Healthy Wiley first novels on the new season's lists offer an interesting comparison in The Green Bay Tree* by Louis Bromfield and The 'Education of Peter by John Wiley. They show admirably the tremendous difference in Which exists between the War and that just younger, and by generation I mean a "college generation." Both of these young men are sensitive- artistic, well-bred. They spring from more or less the same environment , and they are both, perhaps, Naturally, fond of over-sophistication. Yet, in a sense, these books are a hundred years apart. The Education...
...profile he looks like a blend of George Washington, Chauncey M. Depew and the composer of Tristan. His general aspect is that of a lymphatic vestryman. He is almost uncannily undemonstrative. . . . He conducts with astonishing casualness. . . . His listlessness makes the conductional apathy of Richard Strauss seem epileptic by comparison...
Miss Mason, during the whole performance, continues the high standard set last week in her return to the Boston stage In the divorce trial her acting is admirable and makes possible a comparison of that scene with the famous court scene in "Madame X". Paul Gordon, as the correspondent, gives an excellent interpretation of his part. Houston Richards, in spite of an unconvincing make-up, carries off well the amusing role of Lord Ellerdine. Viola Roach, as Lady Atwill, and Anna Laying as Peggy's sympathetic maid, Pauline, do good work...
Nevertheless, the grades determined by these two very different methods are used as bases of comparison, as indices of efficiency. Honors are awarded for specified numbers of high marks; probation befalls if certain average grades are not maintained. An A is fallaciously assumed to represent a definite standard of attainment, in any or every course and scholarships, privileges and what not are decided by the margin of a B based on one system over a C based on another. Under these circumstances, it is impossible to over-emphasize the necessity for some uniform basis of comparison, in all fairness...