Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Prichard Eaton '00 on February 6 and 7 held the first meetings of the course in "The Contemporary Theatre and its Background", giving two lectures covering the theatre up to the American Revolution: he also discussed the play "Contrast" by Royal Tyler of the class of 1717, the first play ever written by a Harvard graduate...
...characterization of the French collegian, appearing elsewhere on these pages, strikes a note seriously critical of American universities. Inspiring is this picture of serious youth bent whole-heartedly over its books; decadent and inefficient in contrast appears America's counterpart. "The university-trained Frenchman is without peer in the world of education", ecstatically sings the Boston Post...
...know exactly what--in the European schools students are there only to learn. Learning and culture are not their primary objects for higher education, they are their only objects. The American college then is a three-sided institution where study, activities and social life all have their place in contrast to the European institution with its great emphasis placed only on study and learning...
...interesting to note this contrast: the pay of a captain in the Army is less than $3,000 per year; that of a commander in the navy less than $5,000. The pay authorized for a civilian trio to perform work heretofore handled by these officers, one at a time, totals...
...York harbor last week aboard the S. S. President Harding to take up the first diplomatic duty of his life as U. S. Ambassador to Germany. With him went Mrs. Sackett. Their departure was almost drab. Only a handful of friends Godsped them from the Hoboken pier. In contrast to the departure for Paris of Ambassador Edge, that other Senator also just beginning a diplomatic career, nobody asked Ambassador Sackett to make any farewell speeches. Nobody gave him any parting banquets. Nobody serenaded him with bands. Nobody threw flowers at him. There were no cheers, no frenzied hat-waving...