Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Courses. The Harvard tradition has always been toward strengthening individual responsibility, toward relaxing and discarding those petty regulations which are always ineffective with lethargic students, and often unjust to others. The whole trend of policy is liberal; there nevertheless remain instances to the contrary to emphasize by contrast the main current...
...number 327 with its untitled verses in mood of pastoral reminiscence and the facily accompanying sketches by "G. C." The naive simplicity of the illustrations suggests a last century copy of "Scribners" or "Out look" with its rabbits, daisies and butterflies, and certainly the stanzas are attractive by contrast with this winter of our discontent...
Incidentally the sympathetic treatment which Mr. Cummings, despite his eccentricities, his appallingly frequent parentheses, and the occasional obscurity of his symbolism, has been accorded by his reviewers is an encouraging sign of the growing maturity of criticism. The contrast between the present ideal of interpretation and the old reviewer's method of judging according to fixed principles, shows how the function of criticism has changed since the days of the supremacy of the Quarterly and Edinburgh Review...
Child Scientists. The contrast of the U. S. boy when he enters kindergarten and when he emerges from college, is depressing. All children are natural-born scientists, and then "the little-boy spirit that makes him tear up a drum to find out what is inside gives way to the falsely superior attitude of not caring a continental"?Dr. E. Laurence Palmer, Cornell University...
...contrast, the thunder and the lightning. Great Quarterback Guttormson kicked off for Washington and in a spurting run, a twinkling pass, the ball was back on his 17-yard line with agile Quarterback Pooley Hubert calling a new Alabama signal. The thunder awoke. Alabama's next pass was intercepted and Guttormson, Tesreau, Patton and Wilson plunged the ball back to a touchdown. In the second period they got another, in the fourth another...