Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This coming Saturday afternoon the Army band will parade on Soldiers Field in all its resplendent garb and martial array, and the rival Harvard band will likewise march and will likewise suffer from the comparison, especially from the aspect of precision and novelty of performance. Admitting that the U. S. Military Academy would be a rather lofty standard to which the Harvard band should conform, still the performances of last week and the week before have only clinched the impression that an evolution is in order. Regardless of musical excellence, gold braid and epaulets with really snappy formations create...
Holy Cross chalked up thirteen first downs to the Crimson's six, and in rushing, Harvard gained only 48 yards in comparison with the 148 of the Purple ball carriers. In the forward passing department, the same story is true for Harvard completed but four of the 18 aerials attempted, while the visitors managed to connect on eight of their 16. Five of the Crimson's uncompleted passes fell into the waiting arms of Holy Cross secondaries...
...comparison of Cambridge prices with the average price prevailing in Boston reveals the fact that rates in the metropolis are about thirty three per cent lower; the usual charge here is twelve dollars a month, while the average fee of Boston garages amounts to eight dollars. The car tenders of the Square have given the excuse that they have been forced to raise prices due to the NRA; this seems merely a feeble evasion which collapses with a sickening thud when faced with the fact that the garage men's code has not yet been signed, and that Boston garages...
...devoted to study, and a first floor room for the stacks. To allow for the increase in House membership, the stacks could be moved to the basement, and the room where they now are might be refurnished as a study, the whole being done at an expense insignificant in comparison to the resultant advantages. The library, of course, is at once one of the most popular and one of the most useful of House adjuncts; further, no conceivable region is less suited to crowding than a library; if Bryant Hall was added without the requisite foresight, the mistake should...
...Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the variations in losses among different kinds of newborns are of no significance compared to the fact that all babies lose weight immediately after birth. He has no hopes of eliminating all the loss because the human baby "is unprepared for its individualized existence in comparison with other mammals, occupying a place somewhere between the domestic mammal and the wild marsupial." If women gestated like most animals, babies would be four times as big at birth as they are, reasons Dr. Kugelmass...