Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...careful printing and general good style are concerned, the Yale News is a pleasant contrast to the Echo...
YALE has two University Eights in training. This is rather a contrast with our position...
...Boat Club, until these meetings came to be so poorly attended that the holding of a meeting was a mere farce. Harvard indifference, so called, is a dangerous trait in the Harvard student, and the sooner he appreciates this the better for his college. What a marked contrast was the attendance of the meeting of Tuesday evening with that called for such an important matter as the consideration of a challenge to Columbia! At the last-named meeting, there were barely a dozen men present besides the Crew...
These last quotations show, I think, a pleasing contrast to the first. The poems from which they are taken have a sufficient excuse for existence, and to my untrained taste are better than many pieces that appear in our best magazines...
...great help in all courses, and the system is doubtless a good one, since it enables any particular book to be used by a large number of students, when otherwise it could be used only by one or two at the most. But there is a marked contrast in the extent to which different instructors seem willing to afford this assistance to the members of their electives. Of course each of them has the right to do as he wishes in regard to what and how many books he will reserve, and is under no obligation to reserve...