Word: contrastedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard reader at least one feature of the Oxford tutorial system, as described by Mr. Frost in this morning's CRIMSON, will present a striking contrast to the predominant Harvard scheme. The majority of Oxford students those who are out for the Hon-ours Degree pursue their studies under the guidance of several tutors, each of whom is a specialist in some phase of the student's general field. The Harvard plan of having a single tutor guide the undergraduate throughout his entire course is the direct aultheals of this English method of instruction...
Consider, by way of contrast, what would be the attitude of the House Masters towards the Freshmen if the first year men were assigned directly to the Houses. They would be vitally interested, each year, in their new material, and in moulding it after they got it, because they will not be something else first and House Masters second, but they will be House Masters first, last, and all the time. Their reputations are going to depend on the records made in all the fields of college activity, by the students under their care. It will be of immense importance...
...contrast between the features of "Princess Lilybet" which adorns this week's issue of TIME and the usual selection for the outside page is hopefully encouraging. I had about concluded that your art editor was a hopeless, bilious pessimist, for however passable the originals of his selections may have looked in the flesh, when the lineaments were transferred to the cover they generally resembled a gnome, gargoyle or anthropoid...
...Roman Catholics made last week by President Fortes Gil: "In the States of Jalisco, Michoacan and Guanajuato there are under arms servants of the Catholic Church, who, forgetting their Christian morality, dedicate themselves to acts of absolute banditry on the pretext of defending the doctrines of their Church. In contrast with that attitude there are other dignified representatives of Catholicism who counsel respect for law and authority...
...Council of National Broadcasting Co. Since the Advisory Council numbers among its members a long list of men and women whose U. S. citizenship is a source of U. S. pride, and since the Lucky Strike campaign has been widely, conspicuously flayed, the Open Letter was essentially a sharp contrast between the admittedly high character of the Council and the allegedly low character of the campaign. Said the Letter...