Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard's worn out and dirty looking foot-ball suits showed in poor contrast to Princeton's neat, clean appearance last Saturday. Where are the new suits for which the team were to be measured recently...
...class day exercises at Brown University occurred last Friday, and were in every way successful and brilliant. The weather was most favorable, in striking contrast to last year's experience, when the affair was twice postponed on account of rain, and finally held in a drizzling rain...
There were seven thousand spectators at the Yale-Princeton game in New York on Decoration Day. The N. Y. Herald in commenting on the game, says: "The contest as a whole was but little in advance of the amateur playing of twenty years ago, and in striking contrast to the splendid exhibition on the same field the day before...
...student, with absorbed look and unelastic step, the probable consequence of his labors and his watching," and then the sport, "the neglecter of his lesson, with his fine clothes, his gay air, and genteel manners, and the fame of his merry-makings." Dismal are his conclusions drawn from the contrast. The author treats his text under the following sub-heads: 1. "We are an insulated community;" 2. "College is a place where the great purpose of all is apt to be forgotten, and their most valuable possession - i. e., time - to be unappreciated;" 3. "We live here in an undomestic...
...George Fuller, of Boston, just completed, have been sold to Bostonians for $4,000 each. One is called "Lorette - Evening," and is the figure of a French-Canadian peasant girl. The other is called "Priscilla Fauntleroy," and represents the ethereal girl in "The Blithedale Romance," who forms a contrast to Zenobia...