Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...statistical comparison of war records, the University leads Yale throughout, excepting in the College Naval Unit, where Yale led by 115. Yale claims the only College Field Artillery School, the largest College Naval Unit, the first. American Mobile Hospital, and the only Training School for Signal Corps Officers, Army Hospital Laboratory, and Chemical Warfare Service...
Deplorable indifference seems to be the attitude most common toward class elections this year. The uncertain number of Seniors back in the University makes an exact comparison of voting and non-voting percentages impossible, but in the balloting of last week the non-participating members of the Class were far too numerous. Following in the footsteps of the Senior election, the Junior and Sophomore classes, especially the former, have paid small attention to the nomination of candidates by petition. From these criteria, the three elections today are apt to be very unsatisfactory to both the nominees and to the classes...
...points according to whether he was best, medium, or worst, and using them as a scale for selection of the men to be promoted. In this way one had concrete and definite examples or standards rather than vague notions and intuitions. One's judgment is usually based on a comparison of the unknown with the known. Instinctively one compares Captain X with Captain A. The method systematizes this procedure...
...particular time, but it denotes an athlete. No standard of athletic ability can be set, but in general it would be inopportune to give the letter to the members of this year's teams. Not only would it misrepresent them, but it would not be fair by comparison to the men who have won the "H" regularly in past seasons...
Although there is almost no data from which to make a comparison of the rival crews, the University is slightly the favorite in view of its victory over Princeton and the Blue's defeat at the hands of the Quaker oarsmen. This advantage, however, would seem to be balanced by the Crimson's lack of experienced men, none of the crew being veterans, in contrast to the Elis, who have three of last year's first boat entered in the race today, Hyatt, Mead and Vail. Statistics of the oarsmen show that the University outweighs the Eli eight pounds...