Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Faculty and the Student Council, as well as one of the assistant deans, have expressed their approval of the proposed change. Following is a comparison of the vacations just finished at several Eastern colleges and universities: Harvard, 11 days; Amherst, 15 days; Cornell, 15 days; Dartmouth, 13 days; Maine, 17 days; Middlebury, 19 days; New Hampshire, 18 days; Princeton, 19 days; Tufts, 14 days; Trinity, 13 days; Yale, 13 days; Williams, 13 days...
...that every letter has a numerical value independent of its alphabetical significance. In the first follo, at the death of Hamlet, the prince had the words O, o, o, o on the tip of his tongue. This did not appear after the first follo. (One might be permitted a comparison between the dark powers of Denmark and the Cambridge gendarmerie). The cipher, as any Hebrew on the street will tell you, means "book." Naturally, we deduce that O, o, o, o refers us to the fourth book in the Bible, which is the Book of Numbers. There we find...
...White House and to many another keen political head the stir had quite another significance. It meant that most of the silver bloc in Congress had had their thunder stolen. Only a few months ago silver was 25? an ounce and 64 1/2 ? was such a magnificent price by comparison that they would appear foolish to complain By his action the President appeared to have detached one of the most earnest battalions from the inflationist army, to have disarmed what would undoubtedly have been one of the most troublesome factions in the new Congress. As for the results...
...telescoped into one script. A cast of Big Names had to be assembled for publicity purposes and yet a Nobody had to play Alice. Artist John Tenniel's familiar characters had to be imitated if not exactly copied. And finally the screen production had to stand comparison with Eva Le Gallienne's excellent stage adaptation for her Civic Repertory Theatre. When Alice in Wonderland was released this week simultaneously in 120 cities throughout the land. Paramount could well feel that it had done its level best to make Christmas bright and merry for millions of youngsters...
...Bingham. Faced with a sharp drop in revenues last year, he cut expenses far below what would once have been considered a bare minimum, yet managed to maintain essentially a full program. Through it all, he has resisted all pressure to countenance the commercialization of Harvard sport. In comparison with other athletic directors, his conception of the place of athletics in a college has been the opitome of sanity. In justification of his present demand for new sources of income, he can point to the undoubted economics already effected. He can call attention to the tremendous load carried...