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...comparison, Greater New York with a population of 5,620,000 has only 29 dailies, and Chicago with a population of 2,700,000 has only seven...
...indeed difficult to name, offhand, another college class to equal Amherst '95. The obvious comparison is Princeton '79, whose membership includes Woodrow Wilson, Mahlon Pitney (former Justice of the United States Supreme Court), Cyrus H. McCormick (head of the International Harvester Co.), Robert Bridges (editor of Scribner's Magazine), Cleveland H. Dodge (major capitalist and philanthropist...
...match, however, was mild in comparison to the doubles finals, in which Lewis N. White and Louis Thalheimer, University of Texas, won the championship from Lucien Williams and Arnold Jones of Yale. Five sets were necessary. In the third the Texans were twice within two points of victory but receded before a violent rally which the Yale players sustained through two sets. The effort, however, wore their game thin and the Southerners won as they pleased in the closing games. The score...
...people read Moon Calf and Eric Dorn because they like to hear their own opinions What can one say of Waverly? What devastating paradox can one derive from Peregrine Pickle? But turn to Many Marriages and its kind and by comparison criticism flows as voluminously, noisily, instinctively as Niagara. When other vanities pass, there still remains one's own invincible opinion...
...that he was taking the Leviathan on a $1,000,000 junket in the guise of a trial trip, Chairman Lasker replied to his accusers. The next day the Democratic National Committee replied that his reply was no reply. The substances of both charge and countercharge bear an interesting comparison, because both are true...