Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...showing made by 1914 is unusually poor. Although this Senior class is larger than last year's, yet at the last day of the first schedule of prices, only 241 men have been measured, in contrast with the 331 who had responded at the same date in 1913. Men should attend to the matter at once, as procrastination only means more expense. 1914 CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...
...verse, Mr. Barlow also contributes the graceful "Of Age." Mr. Dazey's "On Mt. Ranleigh" is, unfortunately, uneven; contrast "we felt the magic of far spaces" with "Its fields were divided into squares of many colors," a phrase neither pleasing nor exact. It were better, perhaps, to regard this bit as experimental or imitative, in the light of some of Mr. Dazey's previous work...
...winning from the University seven in New York Saturday, 4 to 2, the Princeton hockey team evened up the series and made necessary a rubber game which will be played in New York next Saturday. The play in contrast to the last contest with Yale was remarkably fast and clean. At the end of the first half the score was two all, Harvard playing a wonderful defensive game against the fast Princeton attack as well as being exceedingly aggressive. In the second half however the forwards tired and the substitutes sent in lessened this aggressiveness and forced a defensive game...
...Apparatus estimated at the value of fifteen hundred dollars, five thousand books and pamphlets-the largest library in America-and some furniture were lost in the Harvard Hall fire. As a result, "Our college is now the poorest on the continent." The material statement of these facts thrown in contrast with the University of 1913, which directly or indirectly was engaged in building operations to the extent of four and one-half millions of dollars, gives a starling conception of its growth; and in the spirit and atmosphere of the old letter can be felt something of the struggles which...
...contrast to these flights of youthful imagination is Mr. Thayer's pleasant description of that unpleasant experience which he considerately veils in continental alias, "Le Mal de Mer." As the inherent delicacy of the title would indicate, the treatment is deft and restrained, it is the psychological rather than the physical symptoms on which the author dwells...