Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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They complain that Harvard students live too luxuriously, so much so that when a poor young man enters the university the contrast is more than ever painful to him. This is a matter which must be mostly governed by parents. If they permit their sons at college an undue allowance of money it is certain they will spend it as fast as it comes to hand, with no thought of the morrow, and probably with the fixing upon themselves of habits of extravagance which will be highly dangerous, should a change come to their fortunes after they have graduated...
...English department is severely criticised - Prof. Child for his peculiar marking system, "so severe, and so greatly in contrast with that of other instructors that his students are at once placed at a great disadvantage in the struggle for rank, upon which depend college honors, scholarships and other important matters;" and the corporation in general for the inadequacy of its provisions for the teaching of English composition and rhetoric. The article is interesting reading...
...talk about "eel-grass and lunatic coxswains" is concerned, it is no more than will naturally arise in the case of a beaten crew who, no doubt, honestly believed themselves superior to the victors. Although the talk at Harvard over the preceding race was in marked contrast to the excuses made by Yale for last summer's defeat, still every one pardons the feeling of disappointment which actuates a crew in attempting to justify a defeat by a rival whom they consider inferior...
...only for the publications of Harvard but for those of other colleges. However much we may desire to be "men," as the Spirit puts it, we hope never to imitate the majority of "men" in their conduct of newspapers. We think that almost any Eastern college paper will contrast favorably in its tone with the ordinary political newspapers; and to point out what sort of journalists Harvard students make we need only point to such papers as the Boston Advertiser and The Nation, whose staffs are largely composed of Harvard men. It is the constant effort in college journals...
...striking contrast with the above is the conduct of our Boston papers toward us; they pass over Yale's mode of playing with a cool indifference; they say that Yale played an unfair game, but they simply mention the fact casually, and do not even take the trouble to condemn such play. It is not only on this occasion, but on many similar ones that our Boston dailies have shown their absolute indifference to Harvard interests. This would not be so noticeable but for the fact that several of the New York papers show enough interest in college matters...