Word: difference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This meet, held the same day on which Edvin Wide will run, is expected to differ in several respects from the former annual spring meets. This year, instead of having the activities last over several days, it is expected to conclude the meet in one afternoon of intense field events. An innovation, also, this year, will be the relay race that will conclude the meet. This, it was announced, is characteristic of Western colleges, but has never characterized the East. It is expected that this relay race, in which class and department teams may compete, will be a feature...
Seniors in the academic department and in Sheffield Scientific School at New Haven, selecting their "favorite college next to Yale", differ widely as to whether the coveted second place should fall to Princeton or Harvard. "Ac" prefers Cambridge culture by a 12-point margin but the husky engineers of "Shef" are apparently repelled by Harvard's reputed aestheticism, and pass her by entirely in favor of Princeton, Dartmouth and Smith. Consequently, in the combined total Princeton takes a considerable lead...
...what respect do the tails of the New York animals differ from the tails of the Chicago animals...
...brief, Princeton has the New Jersey countryside, and Yale has Savin Rock, but Harvard has only Back Pay--and Brattle Hall. Each has its advantages, and they differ. Mr. Farrar is only carning at the inevitable...
...incident at Princeton and that at Cambridge differ in that the former belongs clearly in that category of affairs pertaining directly to the non-academic aspects of college life. The invitation of students to a conference dealing rather with suggested changes in the curriculum and in methods of teaching is a more radical and less frequent step. But both cases have this in common, that they involve, properly speaking, no question of students' rights, or of educational democracy, but rather one of expediency and of practical efficiency...