Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order to prevent the possibility of going stale, the coaches ordered a complete rest for the entire University football squad yesterday afternoon. Secret practice will, however, be resumed this afternoon. In contrast with last year, none of the men were seriously injured in the game with Princeton, although Trumbull and O'Brien are somewhat lame...
...what to do, though in the first periods, her work had been confident and sensational. Her only score was made from the use of beautifully executed forward passes, two of them for 30 yards each being enough to score a touchdown. The versatility of her attack was in marked contrast to Harvard's faith in simpler plays of an ordinary sort...
...private school graduates; in sharp contrast, have never gone through any sifting process. Of course they have been subject to examinations like all schoolboys everywhere; but in their case no process of gradual selection has been at work to produce the intellectually fit. The boys go to school at 12 or 14 years of age because their parents want them to and can afford to send them; and for like reasons 90 per cent of the same boys go to college...
...theory and also in practice for it has been shown that they have remedied the evil conditions found in legislatures of today. In Oregon, South Dakota, Missouri and other states where they have been adopted they have prevented bad legislation and at the same time insured good laws. A contrast of conditions in these states before and after the adoption of the initiative and referendum shows the great benefit which has resulted in the adoption. The legislative conditions of today are real and serious. The initiative and referendum have a record of proved success, and do remedy these conditions...
...order to formulate some observations on the physical phase of education and contrast it with the intellectual, Dr. D. A. Sargent of the Hemenway Gymnasium has gathered together statistics obtained from the examination of about 1,000 Freshmen of the classes of 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1915. Of the men examined, 451 were from public schools and 579 from private schools...