Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plainly, France must either get some money by way of reparation from Germany or become bankrupt. Germany not only must pay, but can pay. A comparison of reparations after the war of 1870 with those after the Great War shows that although the total sum required from Germany is much greater than that paid by France after the Franco-Prussian war, the yearly payments made by France were larger than those made by Germany since the treaty of Versailles was signed. In this comparison we must also consider the fact that France had been invaded...
Anyone who has had any time to spend at a railroad station has found himself sooner or later on the penny scales comparing his weight and height at sixteen or twelve with the standard given. When the comparison does not turn out to his satisfaction he decides that the average given cannot be accurate, and in the past his conclusion has been correct. It is with the aim of determining these standards more exactly that the Graduate School of Education has undertaken in Dean Holmes' words a "research enterprise of major importance...
Outside of this category, however, there are men who have never been to chapel or "who do not know that chapel exists". For these a single day's required presence would do a world of good. They,-although the comparison may seem somewhat far-fetched, are very similar in spirit to the man who gloried in the fact that he had been in college for four years without ever having seen a football game-a "pride in ignorance" plainly inappropriate, and fortunately not prevalent among men who are interested in a "college education". "But certainly these who have never seen...
...will give the greatest possible effectiveness is somewhat in doubt. The University, on the other hand, relies, not on in the individual excellence of its stars, but upon the effectiveness of team-play and passing, and upon an exceptionally strong defense. When two such opposite teams meet, an excellent comparison of the strength of the two systems can be made...
...recent contributor of yours has, I think, made a rather unsatisfactory, if not altogether lame, comparison between the man who uses "Tutorial School" notes and he who does not. "The former," he says, "learns stick-to-it-ness, the latter concentration, both of which are valuable." This would leave one to think that one course was as productive of good as another. This is rather deceptive. Is, say a three-day concentration period, able to compare in value with a four month stick-to-it period? Or is concentration a desirable so rare that a little of it will...