Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success undreamed of in England. I found that the applied sciences, such as medicine and engineering and agriculture, and the vocational studies, such as law. are at their best taught (and learned!) far better than anywhere in England. But when it came to what one may call by contrast the world of thought, quite the opposite was the case. Pure science and the purely cultural subjects, such as classics and literature and art, are absolutely inferior in most cases, and usually neglected. The situation in regard to them is either tragic or comic. Accordingly, although one meets students who obviously...
...first of these books is concerned principally with an impartial review of Josephine's life. Because it really is impartial, it is a book of intense interest, leaving the Empress, on whom the world has lavished a fair share of sympathy, a startling contrast to other imperial ladies and a strange mixture of vices and virtues...
...steel industry, in sharp contrast to its mood of last summer, now cheerfully faces the future. Prices of bars, shapes, plates and wire products have advanced under broadening buying, while the Steel Corporation has raised its prices on black sheets $2 a ton, and on galvanized and automobile sheets...
...coordination of Coach Wachter's starting team last night that warrants optimism on the part of the Crimson basketball enthusiasts. This was all the more obvious in contrast with the individual playing of the visitors, who rarely succeeded in cutting-in to the basket. Gordon and Fitts with three goals apiece accounted for all but two points of their team's total, the other score being credited to Depolo, a former Harvard student ineligible to play, who started the game in place of D. E. Egan...
Squash racquets still remains the most popular winter sport for Freshmen, according to a statement issued yesterday by William H. Geer, director of physical education, although the 1928 men who have signed up for this sport number only 160 in contrast to 230 at the beginning of the winter season last year. Swimming and basketball come next in order with 123 and 106 respectively. Basketball has made the largest proportional gain of any sport within the range of Freshman winter activities...