Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students studied optional English; in 1885-6, 453 out of the 1006 students took English, or 45 per cent. of all the students in college. This marked increase - more than double - in the percentage of students of English shows very well the striking growth of the English department. In comparison with the other studies of the college, English ranks seventh, being taken by nearly as many men as the four which precede it in the list, Latin, German, Greek and Political Economy. When, however, the number taking English prescribed by the faculty is added to the list of those taking...
...House. He described the debate and the filibustering, and the trick by which the bill passed without amendment. It was largely increased in the Senate, and finally settled in the conference committee. He then discussed what he called the moral character of the bill. It was not extravagant in comparison with previous bills, but it contained many items which were plainly for local improvements in unknown places. He showed a map on which a red wafer marked each place for which appropriations were made by the bill, and mentioned among others Mispillion Creek, Carrituek Sound, Coanjok Bay, Chefuncte River...
...read by Dr. Hooker, who communicated it to Sir Charles Lyell. In this MS. he treated of "The Variation of Organic Beings under Domestication and in Their Natural State;" "On the Variation of Organic Beings in a State of Nature;" "On the Natural Means of Selection;" and "The Comparison of Domestic Races and Their Species...
...followed by the reading of the Seventy-second Psalm. The long prayer was a petition for unity and peace among all people. After a hymn sung by the congregation, Prof. Harris gave out the text from St. Matthew, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." This was humanitarianism. A comparison of unreligious and Christian humanitarianism would be the subject of the sermon. Humanitarianism not based on religion claimed for itself a higher usefulness than that which was based on religion. For it tolerated no waste in worship, a priesthood and other religious forms; but all its energies were directly bent...
...former years give a fixed value in per cents to each question, foot up the total and give the mark accordingly. The system of marking by classes will force the instructors to judge the papers as a whole and to establish the gradation of marks by a careful comparison of all the papers with the most perfect one they find...