Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...individual scoring shows that 42 of Harvard's points have been scored by Captain Mahan, in decided contrast to the Princeton tallying, which has been more evenly distributed...
...second year in succession, Washington and Jefferson defeated Yale at New Haven, this time to the score of 16 to 7. In contrast to other Saturday games, the contest was marked by the use of the wide-open game, the visiting team completely baffling the Blue with a much-varied and bewildering aerial attack. Yale seemed utterly unable to cope with the Washington and Jefferson attack, and at the same time was unsuccessful in breaking up their opponent's defense. A recovered fumble by Scovill on Washington and Jefferson's 10-yard line was all that saved Yale from...
...interpretations. He seems to lack philosophy. The college has to let too many undergraduates pass out into professional and business life, not only without the germ of a philosophy, but without any desire for an interpretative clue through the maze. In this respect the American undergraduate presents a distinct contrast to the European. For the latter does seem to get a certain intellectual setting for his ideas which makes him intelligible and gives journalism and the ordinary expression of life a certain tang which we lack here. Few of our undergraduates get from the college any such intellectual impress...
...upon it. The undergraduates' gladiatorial contests proceed under faculty supervision and patronage. Alumni contribute their support to screwing up athletic competition to the highest semiprofessional pitch. They lend their hallowing patronage to fraternity life and other college institutions which tend to emphasize social distinction. And the college administration, in contrast to the European scheme, has turned the college into a sort of race with a prize at the goal. The degree has become a sort of honorific badge for all classes of society, and the colleges have been forced to give it this quasi athletic setting and fix the elaborate...
...college will not really get the undergraduate until it becomes more conscious of the contrast of its won philosophy with his sporting philosophy, and tackles his boyish Americanisms less mercifully, or until makes college life less like that of an undergraduate country club, and more of an intellectual workshop where men and women in the fire of their youth, with conflicts and idealisms, questions and ambitions and desire for expression, come to serve an apprenticeship under the masters of the time...