Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concentrators in languages find certain inevitable faults which by now appear to be almost stock in trade. Due to its innate stability and uniformity a language is very apt to suffer from comparison with such dynamic subjects as history, government, or economics. The German department at Harvard has in the past been repeatedly indicted for wallowing in a morass of pedantry, and it is to be hoped that current reforms will do much to relieve this condition...
...comparison with Harvard, other Colleges have been charging much higher rates. At Yale students pay $20 a year and an additional $5 a day when they are in the infirmary. Princeton charges $15, Michigan...
...haled to the village school to take an examination. Here, while Captain January and his friend Nazro (Slim Summerville) stand on a rain barrel and peer through the schoolhouse window, Star distinguishes herself. She makes the young nephew of the truant officer, being questioned simultaneously, appear doltish by comparison, gains credentials for the third grade. As lighthouse inspector, Captain Nazro has the sad duty of telling Captain January that, because his light is being mechanized, he must join the unemployed. This means that poor little Star is likely to be turned out doors...
...rate glorifying in his long and spectacular career as producer of musical extravaganzas but never did he attain the dizzy height of opulent glorification which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have reached in their three-hour film biography of "The Great Ziegfeld," which is now running at the Colonial Theatre. In comparison with this musical of musicals previous super-productions fade to the class of colossal on a small scale...
Distinetive men in the department are: Bixler, Demos, Prall, Sheffer, White head, and Wild. The proportion of dead wood remarked upon by concentrators in all fields is, by comparison, remarkably low in Philosophy...