Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Graduate of a Smaller College who has pleased us with his Graduate Student's Impressions of Harvard in the Christmas issue of the Alumni Bulletin has written in sharp contrast to the Confessions of Mr. Stearns who has used the Forum to stir our wrath. The Graduate Student writes delightfully and flatteringly of our University; yet he has found room for faults which have been impressed on him. With a freshness and toleration, the antithesis of the sourness and personal tone of the Confessions, the Impressions satisfy us, but still sound a warning against the unnatural and artificial indifference which...
Dean Briggs compared the spirit of sportsmanship in football as it exists today with that of several decades ago and said that on the whole it was much better. The clean cut play of the last Yale game furnished a pleasing contrast to the somewhat questionable tactics sometimes employed in former championship matches. In baseball, however, Dean Briggs still found much to condemn, censuring particularly unsportsmanlike talk by the players. He urged that the umpire be not only empowered but instruc- ted to stop any unnecessary noise and to enforce chivalry among the contestants...
...whiff from the west comes to us by way of contrast in Mr. Jackson's "Crossed Wires." The plot is worked out with considerable ingenuity. The plains lingo seems natural, and if the tale proceeds along well recognized cowboy lines--it is a cowboy story...
Someday, we hope, a Harvard man who has been inspired with the real enthusiasm which Harvard gives so many of us will write his confessions, or rather praises, to contrast them with the views of H. E. Stearns '13 who has confessed in the current Forum. Mr. Stearns finds that Harvard "fails to stimulate the majority of its students to take advantage of its opportunities, that "it furnishes a totally inadequate intellectual discipline, and instead of teaching a man good habits of work and steady concentration, it encourages lazy and vicious habits." He finds that he "has known more...
...against a wholly substitute eleven. The totals to date, including the Princeton and Brown games are: Harvard, 210; opponents, 16. The eleven, by recording a greater number of points than all but one other Eastern aggregation, has thereby worked up a reputation for being a great scoring machine. The contrast with Yale is striking, the totals in her case being: Yale, 121; opponents, 19. Further statistical examination is even more in Harvard's favor, Yale having been held to tie scores three times,--twice by elevens of very minor importance--and has met one decisive 16 to 6 defeat...