Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pleasing contrast to the poor success of our university teams in recent years stands the record of victories won by the freshman teams. By defeating the Yale freshman eleven at New Haven Saturday, Ninety-three has added another victory to the long list. The game was played under discouraging circumstances,-on strange grounds and before spectators whose sympathies were almost entirely with the opposing team, and the credit of the victory is, therefore, all the greater. For in spite of the disheartening support received from the class, the freshman eleven played a steady game, not so good a game...
...monuments have already attracted the attention of lovers of art, and the Romans carried many of them away from Greece to adorn their villas. Their greatest value to us is that they give evidence of a noble and dignified family life in ancient Greece, and show, in contrast to the exaggerated and libelous plays of Aristophanes, that women were honored and respected in Athens while they lived, and mourned for by their families when they died...
...Harvard Philosophical club last evening, Professor Royce spoke on "Teleology." He dwelt specially on the contrast to a mechanical view of the universe...
...which the examination is conducted that we wish principally to speak. The plan as followed last year and to be observed this seems to us manifestly unfair and in direct contrast to the manner of conducting the examination in English D.; and it is to be regretted that in face of he evident objections to the present plan some change has not been made...
...prescribed English courses for Seniors and Juniors are practically the same in the work done through the year, yet the present manner of conducting the Junior examination, in direct contrast to the senior course, necessitates much more work, the taking of time of other examinations and gives an open advantage to men possessed of good memories...