Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reception is to be of an informal nature, in contrast with the Faculty reception which will be held in the Union this evening. The meeting will provide an excellent opportunity for new students to learn what opportunities in extra-curriculum activities are open...
...members of the new Class of 1923 will be welcomed next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at the annual Freshman reception in Phillips Brooks House. In contrast with the Faculty reception tomorrow night the Brooks House meeting will be entirely informal. The 1923 men will be addressed by a member of the football squad, representatives of the Lampoon and CRIMSON, and probably by one or two members of the Faculty...
Freshmen entering the University next Monday will be in sharp contrast to the "special" class, which less than two months ago, was housed in the Freshman dormitories in a three day extraordinary course from July 28 to July 30. The "specials" were former graduates attending the "Old Grads' Summer School" and, who now, as district chairmen, will direct the raising of the $15,000,000 endowment fund sought by the University. For months the "Old Grads" have been planning their work and an October 1 will begin the actual task of canvassing Harvard men for contributions to the Endowment Fund...
Track at this University comes in for less publicity and appreciation than any other major report, which is in direct contrast to a great number of other colleges. In the West, and especially at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell in the East, the athletic season is not considered a success unless a winning track team is developed. Certainly there ought to be greater interest in track here, for Harvard has excellent facilities and able coaches, besides having the fastest cinder track in America. With such splendid opportunities, every normal undergraduate, who is not suited, either by his physique...
These words apply to the cases of many men in Harvard. They come here as strangers from an obscure school, in contrast with those who enter from the big preparatory schools, and make up their minds to be lonely. Because somebody doesn't pull them out of their solitary state, they conceive the University as composed of but two classes, snobs and grinds. They forget that the men who come out on top started, in many cases, on the same level as themselves. They become cynical and profess to believe that the ordinary undergraduate is not worth knowing, that...