Word: comparisons
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Using Harvard as a basis for comparison, class discussion is much freer at Wellesley; there is less fear of saying the wrong thing. Wellesley's faults carry along with them merits; and although the instructor confesses that he consciously pitches the level of the discussion a little lower than he would prefer, he has the satisfaction of almost one hundred per cent participation...
...that our prices are not high relative to any other commercial establishment nor that we use monopoly advantages in selling them. That the cost of living is "high" in comparison to our student pocketbooks is not the fault of H.S.A. but merely a given fact in the economy in which we function...
...fact, The Diary of Anne Frank far transcends most Hollywood movies. Only in comparison with its distinguished progenitors does it look pale...
Previn's hectic career is sometimes likened to Leonard Bernstein's, a comparison he modestly rejects. The record, though, is of a Jack-of-all-musical-trades, and a master of many. In ten years he has worked on something like 30 films, composing, arranging, orchestrating and conducting quite a few entirely on his own, including It's Always Fair Weather and Bad Day at Black Rock. By "cheating every minute," he has managed to turn out a symphony and a quantity of piano works and chamber music. As a concert pianist, he admires the moderns-Copland...
...wartime careers of Faculty members, that of Samuel Eliot Morison '08, now Jonathan Trumbull Professor of History, Emeritus, stands out. His work as naval historian of the war earned him the inevitable comparison with Thucydides--and he richly deserves it. It was not long after Pearl Harbor that Morison had the brain wave that resulted in a brilliant 13-volume history of U. S. naval operations. Even before the December 7 disaster he had become a prominent spokesman on maritime affairs. His active pre-war support of President Roosevelt's foreign policy won Time magazine's epithet, "a Boston Brahmin...