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With the exception of gold plate, the feast was a perfect model of those which used to be given by the Tsar's representatives, worthy of comparison with the best efforts of kings and princes and financiers...
Princeton, N. J., Jan. 9. The Big Three hockey competition will open tomorrow night when the Yale sextet opposes Princeton in the Hobart Baker Memorial Rink. Although a comparison of scores gives the Blue an edge in tomorrow night's encounter, the battle promises to be a close...
...taxes do not contribute largely to the treasury of the United States. This condition of things is a black mark on the American escutcheon, but it is unfortunately a fact. The same phenomenon in miniature may be observed nearer at home after a heavy fall of snow, in a comparison of the well cleared streets of the Backs Bay with chose of the North...
...poet the hero of the performance. As played by Richard Bird, a young Englishman who came with Havoc (TIME, Sept. 15), even the customarily brilliant performance of Katherine Cornell was slightly shaded in comparison. Miss Eames, Mr. de Cordoba and Mr. Cossart completed one of the soundest and most dextrous casts it is the playgoer's fair fortune to contemplate...
...condition in Widener, however, is almost ideal in comparison to that of the overcrowded lecture rooms in Harvard and Sever. These halls were not built originally for the multitudes that now pack into them every hour. As winter comes and doors and windows are never absent mindedly left open, the change is entirely for the worse. Before vast sums are spent for new buildings, a little might very well be expended to remedy the defects of the old. New chairs and new desks are needed; above all new ventilating apparatus...