Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...leave." But the strangest of all penalties for a college, and the one which seems to us now as the most barbarous, was the custom of corporeal punishment. This was one of the early customs in our College. Then were stripes for cutting prayers, now three deductions; the mere comparison would almost induce us to absent ourselves for an indefinite period from the "devotional exercises at early morn." Admonitions and marks are of comparatively recent date, and perhaps even these may yet give place to a more perfect system. Thus, as the age advances, more and more is left...
...system, or more properly the natural growth and progress which modern facilities of comparison of legal authorities, principles, and reasoning render possible, is as yet in its infancy. It is now announced that "the design of the school is to afford such training in the fundamental principles of English and American law as will constitute the best preparation for the practice of the profession in any place where that system of laws prevails." It is unfair to judge of this system, in its present incomplete form and application to the school, as if it had been tested by time...
...propriety of turning his work into a metrical form. To revel in a lyric on the "Complex Modes of Extension or Duration and Expansion as measured by Number"! His metaphors are abundant, and show that he had a constant struggle to keep his poetical nature in restraint. His comparison of a sleeping man to an oyster or cockle, his simile in regard to the brains, - that some retain impressions like marble, others like sandstone, others like sand, - and his chemical metaphor about the flames of a Bunsen burner calcining the images impressed on the memory to dust, are fine examples...
...request of Mr. Pratt, G. A. T., we wish to state that his worth has at last been recognized by an authority on History, in a comparison of him with Rienzi, the last of the Roman tribunes...
...English system, all inclination for original research is not only not fostered, but is even repressed. If these objections to the Cambridge and Oxford methods are really well founded (and an American can hardly profess to be a judge of the matter except with regard to the comparison between English and German scholarship), any changes founded upon them should be regarded with anything but a friendly eye; and especially should they be thus regarded, since the Englishmen, who as a rule are never prone to decry their own institutions, have attacked the present arrangements so vigorously that a royal commission...