Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which did not come to be a solid part of the University until 1890 shows a slight decrease in the number of students enrolled. There is a total of 603 men in the school this year as compared with 652 last year. This makes a striking contrast with the other departments and with the University itself. They almost all seem to have grown. This loss is probably due to the increase in efficiency of so many graduate schools in the smaller universities throughout the country. One hundred and sixty-one American colleges and universities are represented this year in addition...
...holiday, the holy day, the holy mass of Christ. If we young men believe what we believe, the contrast of what the world is and what it should be, must be terrible...
...Rhodes was too busy advancing the imperial interests of Great Britain to do any practical work toward unifying the human race. He worked mightily in behalf of his own nation, and then, in his will, provided a plan for eliminating national lines and for bringing all nations together. The contrast between the deeds of Rhodes, and the desires expressed in his will is striking. It is the contrast between working and dreaming...
...Behind the Counter" surely ought to have aimed higher than this production has. Its first failing is in a lack of support, for, with the exception of Sam Dody's dancing and the few songs of Marguerite Farrell, the rest of the work is very mediocre, especially so in contrast with the clever performance of inimitable Lew Fields. Alice Fischer as Mrs. Schniff just misses success, for occasionally she shows a truly comic gleam, but she often descends into rough-house which almost becomes vulgarity...
...been interested in following in your columns the news of the programs made by other colleges or universities toward the establishment of units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. But it has been a source of regret to me, and I fancy to many other Harvard graduates also, to contrast these programs with on own inactivity in the matter. It would appear, indeed, as if the reluctance of the University last year to encourage or sanction even the Volunteer Regiment was to be repeated in a similar unwillingness now to co-operate with the War Department in a patriotic work...