Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Contrast of Planters and Slaves...
...contrast to the brilliant life of the planter was the existence of the Negro slaves. Poverty and filth were their constant lot, ignorance, their heritage. Nothing was done for their comfort. Fear that family ties might develop too strongly caused the planters to separate fathers and sons, husbands and wives...
...classic analogy of the Harvard student's attitude with that of the ancient Greek. Dr. Lowell stated that his university's object was "the cultivation of physical excellence in young men." This policy supersedes the interest in their collegiate teams, he feels. Such a principle is in direct contrast to the Romans' ideas, for their main interest was in seeing the chosen few display their prowess, and not in athletics of any sort for the multitude. With these Romans Dr. Lowell compares the huge crowds which throng stadiums in the fall, and who give to athletic contests an importance they...
...student." He favored the system in operation at Oxford, where he had spent a year, in that there was a position on a team of some description or rank for every man. He said that, in England, the number of spectators who attended university contests was relatively small. In contrast to this he placed the American tradition of comparatively recent growth in which thousands of undergraduates "get their exercise by watching 22 gladiators fight...
...contrast is a book which represents pure typography in its most finished form. This is "The First American Bible, Printed at Cambridge in 1663", from the Merrymount Press in Boston. It was printed by Daniel Berkeley Updike, A.M. (hon.) '29, who was for several years a lecturer at Harvard; the text was written by G. P. Winship '93, of the Harvard Library; and all the arrangements for its publication were made by G. T. Goodspeed '25. The binding of this volume is copied from the Harvard copy of the original edition of the John Eliot Indian Bible. An even more...