Word: contrasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While watching our games with the smaller colleges I have always felt annoyed that the men on these teams are so poorly provided for on Soldiers Field. The single bench on the farther side of the field forms too strong a contrast to the more comfortable provisions made for our men. Later in the season more powerful teams are provided with a shelter similar to that used by Harvard's team. Why could not this shelter be erected at the beginning of the season and thus be enjoyed by all the opposing teams? I, for one, cannot...
Gradually, however, as chapel regulations became less harsh, disturbances from this cause became less frequent and less frequent. New that chapel is entirely voluntary a wholesome respect and reverence for the short services which starts in marked contrast to the foot shufillings and speechings which used to drown out the words of the preacher, has grown up among the undergraduates
...which leaves no particular impression on the reader's mind. Mr. McCormick's vivid study based on a shipwreck makes a definite impression. So little emphasis is laid on the first phase of the story, however, that the plot does not receive the full benefit of the sharp contrast as the character develops...
...room was crowded by ten minutes of the hour of beginning; and the usual hitching forward of the whole rows of chairs ensued to allow space in the rear for a hundred or so more. In contrast with football mass meetings, the gathering was remarkably quiet, applauding the speeches sanely and heartily, but without the unreasonably wild enthusiasm engendered in athletic contests. At the close one verse each of "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and "Fair Harvard" were sung...
...Beach's play, in contrast to his farcical "Let's Get Married" which the club presented in the fall, is written in serious vein. The plot hinges upon the struggle of a woman's "almost atrophied will with events that demand forceful direction." "The Bank Account" is a drama of modern scene depicting the destruction of an office drudge's hopes by his wife's financial mismanagement. "The Fourflushers," the only comedy of the three deals with a domestic situation of humorous complexity...