Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual report of the Carnegie Foundation, a portion of which appears elsewhere in these columns, occurs significant comment on English athletics, especially where they contrast sharply with the features of athletic systems in American Universities. The most impressive aspect of the matter lies in the fact that, though there are in England many of the openings for commercialism into which American institutions have fallen the tendencies have not appreciably advanced...
...contrast is clear with one added point. As in America, so at Oxford and Cambridge, athletics are countenanced by the authorities, but they are not, as in America, either given largely to the direction of sporting interests or taken officially under the wing of the authorities. They are supervised much as the individual students are supervised, namely, by men interested in them. The faculty members interested are men who in their other capacities live among the students eat with them, and are friends and advisers...
...Contrast this with American police methods. M. Daudet would most certainly have been sworn at; he might very readily have been hit over the head. It is even possible that he would have had to pay his call to the Prefect in a patrol wagon. Had he waited to angle his silk hat properly, it is even conceivable that he would have been hit with a pistol butt. Third degree methods might have been applied should M. Daudet have continued his propaganda at the station in favor of a monarchy. Most certainly his siege would have been enlivened with tear...
There is an obvious contrast between the warfare of Count von Luckner and that of the average U-boat commander, which marks emphatically the contrast between the scientific and the personal in war. One submarine did ten times the damage done by the Sea Eagle; but it is not to the deadly reptiles of the under-ocean but to the daring sailing-vessel of the surface that the pain for valor goes...
This is in sharp contrast to U. S. students in Great Britain, who concentrate at Oxford and Cambridge, chiefly for the study of the classics, English literature, law and theology...