Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following interesting facts which a comparison of a Yale catalogue of 1834-35 and the one issued this year elicits, have been taken from an article in the Hartford Courant...
...University of Pennsylvania, broke the world's record in the high jump, with a jump of 5 feet, 11 1-2 inches. He defeated Page at the games but did not equal Page's record which at that time was over six feet. In the pole vault, an unfair comparison was made between Shearman's record and that of Ray of England, in that the reader was led to suppose that Ray's record is a college one, when in reality it is not. A. Copeland's recorded of 14 3-5 seconds in the 120-yards hurdle race...
...invalid. Since that time a well-organized and responsible electric light company has established itself in Cambridge, and electric lights have almost entirely superseded gas in the various stores around the college. The cost of putting electric lights in the library would be comparatively slight-in fact, insignificant in comparison to what it would have cost three years ago. We have heard that the corporation do not wish to put electric lights in the library until they have money enough to light the yard and law school library at the same time. There is no reason why the lighting...
...Collegian for January, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, who has been identified with Harvard life for half a century, gives a short sketch of the college life as it was in his undergraduate days. It is an interesting comparison with the Harvard life of today, so we quote a few of the most salient passages...
...interest to note in comparison with these statistics that the number of books drawn from the Harvard Gore Hall Library by students is over 60,000 volumes for the year; and the number of reserved books taken out over night for the same time is more than 9000 volumes, about the amount taken out by Yale men from their university library, in the ordinary way, during an entire year...