Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...firmly of the opinion that the crew should be constantly under the training of a man who makes it his profession in the sense that Mr. Lathrop makes it his profession to train the candidates for the Mott Haven team. The success of this team forms an instructive contrast to the failure of our crews. Moreover, the trainer of the crew need not necessarily be an oarsman himself any more than Mr. Lathrop is a sprinter. An intelligent trainer can make himself master of the art of applying ones muscles to an oar without himself actually excelling...
...very small part. It is certainly a pleasure to note the strides which Harvard is taking in many of the educational reforms of the day and to realize the scale on which original scientific research is being conducted. They show the growth of the university, in contrast to that of the college. The future development of Harvard, not necessarily in numbers, but in educational advantages, must be, for the most part, in the graduate and professional schools and hence we must welcome the more and more rigid requirements for admission to these departments and for continuance in them...
...Scherzo from Midsummer-Night's Dream is bright and lively, and full of surprises. The violins have a very intricate series of passages which require the greatest unity of sound for good effect. The Notturno is, of course, a decided contrast to the Scherzo. It contains many quiet melodies, some of them very suggestive of church music. The movement ends with a sustained high note on the violins and a quiet accompaniment by the rest of the orchestra, the whole sound fading away till it is lost...
...Chaucer was a marked contrast. Langley was a novelist, Chaucer an artist. His nature was sunny and genial, he was satisfied to take things as they were, and try to describe not to better them. He was a man of facts; not only was he an eager student, and a prodigious reader, but an accomplished man of the world. He had the best education England afforded, he paid a visit to Italy, and shared in the active life of English politics...
...Germans, hence it is highly interesting to see how they developed at home, and unmixed with Latin blood, a modern society and art. This development began with their invasion of the Roman world, which produced in them a great excitation of all their powers, very much in contrast with the destruction they brought to things Roman. They carried with them in their invasion religions and historical traditions, largely mythological in form; and these traditions were excellent as material for poetic use. To them they added, however, a great body of historical tradition due to the events of the invasion itself...