Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish to-day a very interesting and factions letter giving an account of the trials and tribulations of a West Point cadet, written by a-former member of the junior class at Harvard. The rigorous training of a cadet at a military academy is in sharp contrast to the freedom of action which is allowed at institutions of literary learning in this country, but undoubtedly the only way to make good and efficient army officers is to have the cadets subject to such severe discipline as gradually to accustom them to the hardships which they must endure in active service...
...complexity of King Lear render any representation of it necessarily inadequate, it follows that there is a fatal flaw and self contradiction at the foundation of Shakspere's art. For if his living pictures cannot be made to move across the stage in all the telling truth of their contrast and variety,- Shakspere missed his vocation. He should have written poems or novels, not plays...
...Brown freshmen have subscribed sixteen dollars for the support of a class crew. This is a great contrast with the class subscriptions here...
...radical position assumed by Harvard in regard to foot-ball and other branches of college athletics is in contrast to the temperate attitude toward them maintained by Princeton. Two important actions have recently been taken here, one by the faculty, the other by the students, which show the prevailing tendency. In a recent mass-meeting the students appointed a Graduate Committee for foot-ball, base-ball, lacrosse, track athletics, and tennis. The gentlemen who constitute it are Messrs. C. C. Cuyler and David Paton, of New York, and Mr. Alexander Van Reusselaer, of Philadelphia. In a second mass-meeting...
...statesmen. have most interest for the student of political evolution-those of Rome and England-belong to the same type ; the type usually described as unwritten, because in the main their rules and principles rest far more on usage than on any organic statute or body of statutes. In contrast with these is a class of Constitutions now beginning to attract more notice, and illustrated by those of Switzerland and the United States ; Constitutions usually know as written, because they are wholly contained in written enactments. But the current fashion of expressing, this distinction is unsatisfactory. It does not indicate...