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...comparison of the De Officis Ministrorum of St. Ambrose with the De Officiis of Cicero...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowdoin Prize Subjects. | 12/5/1895 | See Source »

Pennsylvania claims the intercollegiate football championship this year. Her claim rests on the following comparison: Yale played a tie game with Brown, Cornell defeated Brown, Harvard beat both Brown and Cornell, and Pennsylvania defeated Harvard, Brown and Cornell, the last named by the decisive score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/30/1895 | See Source »

...principal aids in obtaining these facts about old French pronunciation is the comparison with sounds of these words as transferred into other languages. English is not the only language valuable for this purpose. Mediaeval German, on borrowing French words, spelled them so as to indicate their pronunciation. The other helps are the study of Latin and the medieval rhymes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR SHELDON'S LECTURE. | 11/14/1895 | See Source »

This list of statistics of the various freshman classes is of interest though not an absolutely safe means of comparison, as some of the figures represent the entering class of the university while others simply mean the academic class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Various Freshman Classes. | 10/29/1895 | See Source »

...following figures are interesting in comparison with those of Yale University, published recently in the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Statistics. | 10/17/1895 | See Source »

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