Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Princeton men played under disadvantages in not being accustomed to level ground and feeling strange in the presence of gentlemen. They could not have failed to notice the contrast between our treatment of their Nine and their treatment of ours. Their fine plays, when discoverable, were received with as great applause as were those of our own Nine, and they received that courtesy always due to strangers...
...there is a pleasure rarely to be enjoyed in comparing the old poet with the new, in setting side by side the simple, earnest naturalness of the one, and the complex thought, richer and fuller, of the other. Two passages are cited by Mr. Furnival, which well illustrate the contrast: first, the reply of Sir Bedivere...
...none, forgetting that change and improvement are not always synonymous terms, any more than antiquity and perfection are. The variety which a Harvard Class Day furnishes in the way of entertainment is one of the pleasant features of the day, and the exercises at the tree form an agreeable contrast to the more solemn and dignified proceedings in the Chapel. Seniors are not the less gentlemen for showing for a few moments that they still have youthful spirits, and rowdies they do not show themselves...
...second bath in a twelvemonth is superfluous, she is, by a bitter irony, appointed to clean and take care of the rooms of perhaps thirty unfortunate students. The innocent Freshman, coming from a home where everything is done by well-taught and comely servants, is surprised at the contrast between the actual Goody and the ideal he had formed from her name of an ancient but respectable peasant...
...beauty and a joy forever," it would stand as a memorial of a class which cared not enough for the honor to contribute a sum sufficient for the erection of one worthy of the Hall. Moreover, when a window purchased for a small sum like this comes in contrast with such a beautiful one as the west window of Memorial Hall, it necessarily has to suffer extremely by the comparison, and its poor quality will continue to become more and more evident as succeeding classes, striving to outdo their predecessors, erect more costly windows around it. The expense of erecting...