Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tint of Pan drawn by Gilbert K. Chesterton in an interview which the visiting lecturer granted the Yale News. Mr. Chesterton feels that the youth of America matures too quickly. He bemoans the fact that when an undergraduate is about to leave college he has experienced almost everything. In contrast the closer ties between the authorities and the students, the "domestic college life", of English universities Hends to keep the undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge young...
...Daniel A. Buckley Scholarship Fund to be distributed among graduates of Cambridge public schools. This amount would seem to be sufficient to provide for all Cambridge students needing funds without special dispensations from the University. Harvard has no desire to pose as a close fisted Shylock in contrast to the altruism and munificence of the Cambridge City Council, but with the ample funds now available for residents of Cambridge desiring scholarships, the proposal seems hardly worthy of serious consideration...
...contrast to the point of view expressed by the Harvard graduate in this morning's CRIMSON, is the attitude of Oswald Garrison Villard regarding the suppression in Germany of "All Quiet on the Western Front." Villard found the German nation seething with militarism and discontent, ready to seize the film, which most foreigners have regarded as not in the least derogatory to the German character, as a means of propaganda against the Government in the time of a national crisis. Seen from this angle the censorship would appear like a weak surrender to the demagogues of the Hitlerite gang...
...lecture he emphasized the point that the question of communism versus capitalism will be fought out neither in Europe nor in America, but in "the fluid East, our greatest potential market." He went on to discuss the economic contrast between the United States and the European nations, describing it as a contrast in standards of living, in which the higher standards set in America make for greater economic soundness...
...paintings, all substantial additions to the Fogg's collection, is Rembrandt's "Portrait of an Old Man." This valuable portrait was formerly in the collection of the Duke of Oldenburg. Hanging on the same wall is a "Portrait of a Preacher of Holland" by Franz Hals, a striking contrast to the Rembrandt in its breadth. Both pictures add examples of the Dutch School which up until this time have not been represented in the Fogg Museum collection except by occa- Family" by Murillo, as well as one of the many versions of El Greco's subject, "Christ Driving the Money...