Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that the first round in the scrub baseball series has been completed, it is possible to judge of the success of the new system of competition in comparison with that of last year...
...making this comparison the three latest possible classes at the two colleges have been treated, the classes of '94, '95 and '96. The class of '97 could not be taken as the number of its members who are to receive their degrees after five or perhaps after six years is not yet ascertainable. The time covered is from the fall of '90, when the classes of '94 entered the two colleges as freshmen, to the coming June, when a few stragglers from the classes of '96 may yet receive their degrees. The statistics deal only with the men entered regularly...
...have entered college the preceding year and been dropped a class, and also those of men who have entered the class regularly, but who had been in their university the preceding year as special students and thus got a few courses to their credit. The first interesting comparison is in the number of men of the firet kind,- "dropped" freshmen. The large number of these men at Harvard shows the strict discipline of our college office, but is partly accounted for by our elective system which allows a man to divide his work unequally among the four years...
...fifty-second annual report of the Astronomical Observatory for the year ending September 30, 1897, shows that the strongest feature of the department in comparison with other observatories is the large endowment for current expenses, which makes it possible to undertake and carry to completion extensive investigations. As regards permanent plant, however, the Observatory falls far behind not only observatories of the first rank, but even those of the second class. The photographic plates are housed in a modern brick building, but the other buildings are all old wooden structures, liable to destruction by fire, together with the instruments, manuscripts...
...course nothing but examination and comparison will convince any one that our goods are exactly what we say-combining sound and tasteful material, skilled workmanship, and low price. Mention of some of our prices will indicate that the examination and comparison are well worth making. We make to order good every day suits from $25 to $35. Ready made suits, in many respects quite as good, are sold by us from $13 to $20. We make winter overcoats, of Carr's English Melton, from $28 to $35,50. We sell ready made overcoats, of goods of similar quality...