Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second half the playing was slow and in marked contrast with the playing in the first half. The feature was the splendid interference behind which C. Brewer made a beautiful run and touchdown. It was a well formed mass and the four men kept together admirable...
...contrast which our students thus present to those of foreign countries, is due to no improper forcing of the latter. The cause is to be found in the weakness and inadequacy of our methods of education for the young. The effect of this weakness is to bring boys of fourteen or fifteen to the preparatory schools with very little actual knowledge, and with no systematic training at all. In the process of hurrying such backward scholars into college, it is no wonder, and but small blame to the instructors, that the immediate preparatory training is itself insufficient and unsatisfactory...
...genius, upon which famous illustrators have for hundreds of years been engaged, and which generations of great actors have interpreted. It is to be ranked with but three other works of Shakespeare: Othello, Macbeth and King Lear. When considering these plays in relation to Hamlet, one point of contrast immediately presents itself. In Hamlet it is not the hero of the play who acts and keeps you in suspense. He is the one unhappy soul hurried along by the fates and he only acts when he must. In each of the other three plays the hero is the chief actor...
This verse is the key-note of the New Testament, which is European, in contrast with the Old Testament, which was wholly Asiatic. Between the book of Malachi, the last of the Old Testament series, and the birth of Christ, tour hundred years elapsed. These four centuries mark the transition period of the Jewish people from a simple, agricultural community to a powerful commercial people, whose land had been changed and improved under the influence of Roman civilization. If we are to understand the means by which the religion of Christ was spread abroad among the nations of the world...
...best. This unquestioned masterpiece, however, is "Marius the Epicurean," which, to a well tuned mind, is one of the most beautiful, suggestive and inspiring books in the English language. It is not the philosophy of the book, but rather its pictorial qualities which make it attractive. In contrast to Matthew Arnold, who wished to make the best things prevail, Pater dwells upon the best things, without trying to make them prevail...