Word: comparison
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...acquisitions to the University Library during the past year numbered 17,677 volumes. Of late years the proportion of American books bought for the Library has increased in comparison with the proportions of English and German books...
Last evening in the Fogg Art Museum Professor de Sumichrast lectured on Goldsmith and Marivaux. He began by fully summarizing Goldsmith's play, "She Stoops to Conquer," and Marivaux's play "Le Jeu de I'Amour et du Hasard," quoting frequently from each. He proceded to draw a comparison between the two play wrights, vastly to the advantage of Marivaux. He said that Marivaux is superior to Goldsmith in construction and is more thoroughly artistic. In Marivaux's play the analysis is subtle and delicate, the characters carefully and minutely drawn, the interest concentrated throughout. Goldsmith's play is diffuse...
...Fiske closed with a comparison of life in New England and in the Carolinas, saying that in his opinion with such differing conditions the Civil War was inevitable...
...moves for him, can hardly imagine that a professor stands on the platform behind the debater, whispering in his ear, though his words would seem to imply some such belief. If the part of the chess expert were limited to improving his pupil's play before the match the comparison would be less infelicitous...
...comparison of the views of Professor James and Professor Ladd on the nature...