Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...other colleges, as the former were all made by men who had more or less handicap given them. We have omitted the records at the hammer from this table, owing to the fact that hammers of different weights were used in nearly every case, so that a fair comparison would be impossible. The standing broad-jump at Williams must have been made with weights, as otherwise it would be a best-on-record. The only event in which the best American College record is beaten (unless it turns out that this latter record is correct) is the 100-yards dash...
...only by those wishing to become good debaters, but by all who seek that peculiar kind of improvement which, for want of a better name, is called "general culture." Great as the advantage is of listening to the speeches of four well-prepared disputants, it is small in comparison with the advantage of learning sound lessons in tact and acuteness from an instructor who has made these subjects a life study. To deliver just opinions not only on the merits of the disputants, but also on their defects, without regard to the persons criticised, is a task few can accomplish...
Among the grim influences of Puritan Boston, our benevolent Goose cherished her golden eggs of fancy. "The Swan of Avon is not the only bird that has made melody for all time." If we do not fear to make this comparison, we certainly shall not shrink from placing our author beside her contemporaries in that chill time, the grave Judge Sewall, and Governor Bradstreet's uncanny sister, who is remembered unpleasantly even at this day. Beside the utterances of the Judge, which breathe the spirit of the time, the spirit of funerals and of work, the cheerful rhymes of Mother...
There ended my love affair, but not my poems, Like Wordsworth (pardon the apparently egotistical comparison), I write on every subject, no matter how commonplace it may be. Thus, one of my most popular sonnets is addressed to "My Dog, on Losing his Collar," while a lyrical poem, "To a Hole in my Shoe," has been ranked very high by competent critics, and was even mistaken by some for a posthumous production of the great "Lake" bard...
...plan is hardly perfected as yet; but it is so simple, in comparison with my Electric Light, that I have given that idea...