Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Record in speaking of the Princetonian affair says: The attitude of the Princeton faculty toward the students is in many respects in marked contrast to that of the Harvard and Yale faculties toward the students under their control. Evidently at Princeton there is a great veneration for old customs and traditions, which precludes a just comprehension of more modern ideas. This is evinced in the various actions taken by the faculty in regard to athletics. These consist of aggressive restrictions whose haste and indiscretion has to be repented in almost immediate concessions. But even these so-called concessions are sufficiently...
...memorial window of the class of '60 has a companion which has been placed near it-that of the class of '80, in the Memorial Hall at Cambridge. The subjects treated in the two compartments are in strong contrast to the figures of the youthful soldiers in the deep-toned battle picture or the opposite side of the hall. Homer the mighty, Virgil the sweet-voiced, are the figures chosen to adorn this window. The composition is charming. The fault which some people have found with the '60 window, of its admitting too little light, cannot here apply...
...introductory solo is the prettiest portion of the song; while the words of "Yale Men Say" are sadly mangled. All these imperfections might easily have been avoided by a little care. The typographical appearance of the book is all that could have been desired and is in marked contrast to many of the books of college songs which are in general use. The book will, no doubt, prove as popular as its predecessors...
...than the spectacle presented to them all over the country of professors who are either fourth-rate men, for whom their wretched salaries are full remuneration, or first-rate men toiling for what barely keeps body and soul together, and places them, in an intensely mercantile community, in humiliating contrast with men of nearly every occupation above unskilled labor...
...unwilling to give up either of these requirements; although the majority of the faculty are said to favor a voluntary attendance. The behavior of the students at chapel prayers is exemplary. Their home training has undoubtedly made them realize that mere gentlemanliness requires this. In this respect the contrast with most bodies of Western students is not soothing to Western pride...