Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale runners finished before the first Harvard man, giving to the home team a victory with the smallest possible score. In the race yesterday, four runners of the University team finished among the first six, and the sixth Yale man arrived in eleventh place. Almost the same striking contrast appears between the races with Technology this year and last. A week ago the University team won by the score of 36 to 43; a year ago it was defeated...
...contrast to these improvements in the University team's play, were the inexcusable fumbling, the inability to score by straight rushing and the loss of much distance from penalties. Harvard lost the ball on fumbles four times when within scoring distance of the Army's goal. Every time in Army man recovered the ball and it was kicked out of danger on the next play. Moreover, the University team last 60 yards by penalties. Three offences of holding, one of crawling and one of interference inside the 20-yard zone were recorded against...
...flavor as the collection goes on. The earlier verses have in general a more scholastic quality and a higher general average of literary quality; the work of more recent years is marked by a greater freedom from conventional modes, and so has a stronger flavor of conviction. The contrast between the two poems by Mr. Houghton which open the book and the "Road Song" of Langdon Warner, or Mr. Wheelock's "Sunday Evening on the Common" shows this most clearly. The tendency is a healthy one. It begets the hope that progress is toward the combining of individual and original...
...College color, the Corporation has decided that a single official crimson is necessary, and has authorized it for all Faculty purposes. It is of the color of material blood, being more purple and much richer than the shade now in use, which beside it looks brown and dull by contrast...
...prepare him for the latter, though recoiling from study that would fit him for intellectual work. This shows a disproportion between immediate ambition and relative permanent values, even as they stand in the mind of the undergraduate himself. Of course, the disproportion is due in large part to a contrast in the amount of applause won by the two forms of activity in college, for few men at any age are so self-con- tained as to be impervious to apparent estimates of success on the part of the general public. But there is another cause for the distortion...