Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rollins Chapel at Dartmouth will not be dedicated until Commencement. A chime of bells will put up as soon as money can be raised for the purpose. What a pleasing contrast the future call to prayers of the Dartmouth student will be to the loud jingle which calls us to Appleton Chapel...
...What a contrast there is between the ordinary hum-drum town and one that can boast of some institution of learning, be it ever so small. The power of education seems to throw a gloss over all, and the life seems more quiet, re-fined and ideal. The presence of the students in the streets in England, attired in their ridiculously short gowns, in Germany with parti-colored caps, gives an idea of gaiety and life to the throng of busy passers-by. All is University, for the very townsfolk can do nothing but talk of this new rule, that...
...campus of Cornell is to be lighted by electricity. What a contrast there will be to the Cimmerian gloom of our yard in the night time...
...certainly made up its mind on one particular point. The date, Monday evening, fixed for the special hearing is certainly much too early. The determination of the committee to hold such a hearing can not but meet with commendation on all hands, particularly as it is in such marked contrast to the methods employed by the committee of a year ago. But why should the meeting be held so very soon? There is no hurry, for the foot ball season of next year is far away. Rather is there good cause for delay. Many of the men who have...
...with athletics during his collegiate days at Yale, and of the deep interest he took in them, especially in boating. He spoke of the clumsy, awkward boats in use at that time, as broad as they were long, modelled somewhat after the old Dutch Burgomaster's wife, in sharp contrast to our arrow like shells. Many of our most distinguished men were during their college course identified with boating interests; such men as President Eliot of Harvard, President McCosh of Princeton, and President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University, all of whom are said to have rowed on their respective 'Varsity...