Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast to the enrollment of 237 which the Glee Club possesses the Yale group consists of only 50 singers picked from the three upper undergraduate classes. Final voice trials have not yet been held at New Haven, and the club is not in definite form...
...paid full union wages . . .", is false. According to Mr. Stefani, full union wages for waitresses are $12. a week with food and tips. Union regulations require that uniforms be supplied and laundered by the employer. Also the cleaning of wood-work is not done by union waitresses. In contrast Harvard pays $12 a week without tips, supplies uniforms but does not launder them, and requires them to do a certain amount of scrubbing...
...vivid contrast to the squalor of their surroundings is Harvard University, with its beautiful buildings, playing fields, and comparatively well-to-do student body. The youngsters have not yet learned the gentle art of stealing cars, although this may come in time, but they have discovered the possibilities of income, in one form or another, from their wealthier neighbors. The loss incurred by the university community is slight, and only the possibility of a serious fire or an injured student can justify consideration of the problem on materialistic grounds; but Harvard should not be altogether deaf to its civic obligations...
...seminar in an instructor's room, with smoking allowed, presents the student with a refreshing contrast to the run-of-the-mill sessions in Harvard, Emerson, or Sever, where he is often confronted with an uninspiring lecture and a bafflingly large reading list...
Shortly after eleven o'clock last Saturday morning, the vicinity of Sever Hall was the site of much activity. Harvard students, finishing up the last classes of the day in anticipation of a big afternoon at the stadium, dribbled out of Sever's wide portal in slovenly contrast to the ramrod posture and brass-buttoned uniforms of members of the Military Academy, who, collected in small dignified groups, were chatting away with one another in a way becoming cadets...