Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ALTHOUGH it is very gratifying to have our virtues commended and our faults forgotten, we cannot expect to derive any real benefit from this kind of criticism. An unbiassed comparison, whether between individuals or institutions, is the only one conducive to marked improvement...
...such a comparison between the universities of England and America the reader is referred to an article in the North American Review by President Eliot. The length of the English term and the American term, the modes of instruction, the systems of examination, the discipline and morals in the colleges of both countries, are compared in such a way as to show what is best adapted to the wants of undergraduates...
...Magdalen College Athletic Sports took place, Nov. 9 and 10 the Freshmen's (University) on the 13th and 14th. As will be seen, the Freshmen made the better record, though the comparison is hardly a fair...
...every event, except the three-mile run, a race which was on but one other programme. Undoubtedly, the fact that Jarvis had not been in a condition for use has much to do with the poor showing in athletics Harvard makes this year; but we hope that the comparison, so unfavorable this year, may be changed next spring, and that the Athletic Association may again meet with the success which it once...
...COMPARISON of the number of volumes in some of the largest libraries of the country shows the Harvard Library to be the third. The following are the figures: Library of Congress, 300,000; Boston Public Library, 299,869; Harvard, 227,650; Mercantile Library of New York, 160,613; Astor Library, 152,446; and Yale College Library...