Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sophomore tennis player Kevin Shaw, who "guru" Fish has working on a new two-handed forehand: "Dave is a great coach, even in comparison to Jack. I don't want this to sound mushy, but he is a great coach...
...above doing in the past. Even if Janata can generate widespread popular support, there is some doubt as to whether the party can translate that support into votes. The irregularities of Indian politics, a country whose corrupt electoral system makes the late Richard J. Daley's machine pale by comparison, have led many of the opposition leaders to resign themselves to an inevitable Congress victory...
Aside from institutional rivalry, the tournament offered a comparison of various teaching techniques. Although the contest used the "case method" pioneered at Harvard-that is, the examination and solution of specific problems like that of Publisher Ginn-several of the schools favor other systems. Chicago is known as a "theory" school where students learn general concepts, then apply them to specific cases. Carnegie-Mellon and M.I.T. are strong in statistics and math; their students could "crunch the numbers." Wharton is reputed to produce hard-nosed decision makers-bottom-line types. Cornell, which uses a combination of the case-study...
...sophomores must inevitably worsen under the new plan. Canaday holds about the same number of sophomores as the Quad has freshmen--but to simply switch them would cause intolerable problems. Freshmen currently housed at the Quad are very crowded: last year's problems at Mather House will pale by comparison if sophomores are forced to live in one-room doubles at the Quad. North House alone, would have to lose 40 people to retain its current level of upperclass crowding. These 40 people must be picked up elsewhere--and that means the already overcrowded River Houses...
...woods surrounding the campus are not extensive enough, UConn sports a few trees on the basketball court: 6-8 Jeff Carr, 6-10 Al Lewis, 6-8 Jim Abromaitis and 6-5 Hanson. The Crimson, by comparison, had at one point a lineup of 6-2 Jonas Honick, 6-6 Bob Hooft, 6-2 Jeff Hill, 6-2 Dave Rogers and 6-5 Ackerman...