Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...comparison drawn by Mr. Laski between American and British university students and methods suggests at least one significant question. Is it more desirable that the educational system of a country should produce a large group of men whose average mental equipment is relatively high, and but very few above this average, or that it should produce a considerable number of brilliantly able men while the general average is allowed to decline...
...peculiar thing about this discovery is that the star which Miss Woods found is now invisible. It first appeared in April, 1917, attained its maximum brilliance of 6.5 magnitude on April 25 of that year, fluctuated in brightness until August, and later disappeared. It was discovered in the comparison of old and new photographic plates, a process regularly pursued at the Observatory for the sake of recording changes in the heavens. Usually discoveries are made on new plates. This time, when the new plate was superimposed on the old it was found that a star recorded on the old plate...
With two straight victories to their credit the University hockey team will meet the sextet from Dartmouth College this evening at the Pavilion. The game will be called promptly at 8.15. If past performances are any means of comparison the contest tonight is due to be a struggle which will rival the last Yale game in speed and closeness. Neither team is undefeated, and both have shown brilliant play in their early matches...
Tonight's game will afford a good comparison of the strength of the Crimson sextet and the team from Tufts who met Dartmouth last evening. The University players will meet Tufts on the ice next Wednesday
...present there are still greater dangers in applying the epithet "parlor bolshevist" to anyone who dares assert an independent opinion. If this nation and the whole world do not watch their step carefully, the next decade will usher in a period of suppression on such a scale that in comparison the age of Metternich will appear as a mad whirl of anarchy...