Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collection, in contrast to that of Fogg, does not contain originals. Instead, casts have been taken from works of art such as the tympanum of the Cathedral of Strassburg, the entrance to the Cathedral of Freiburg, and the Berlin statue of the Great Elector. American artists have so deftly painted the casts that the very rust of the iron hinges, the polish of the bronze, the color of the stone, or the finish of the wood appear in the copy. There are also excellent electrotype reproductions of German work in gold and copies of paintings by Van Eyck, Durer...
Meanwhile there seems little to do but await results. America has elected to stay out of Europe and apparently has taken all international confidence our with her. It is hard to imagine a stronger contrast than that between Genoa and Washington...
...opportunities for enlightenment and learning extend even farther beyond the range of books than is the case at Harvard. The exhaustive inquiries into contemporary politics with constant delvings into the Classic or Medieval for parallel or contrast leave the unsophisticated American bewildered--he had thought it was to be a harmless tea-party with the conventional small-talk. All kinds of contacts will be made and a good many dissolved in the course of such a year but all leave their impression...
...very striking indication of the progressive spirit of the Chinese is the extent to which the Government itself has fostered education for women in contrast even with Japan, which is so often referred to as having been speedily and completely modernized. There is not yet in Japan a single college for women under government auspices, whereas in China there are several, and in some even co-education is practiced in a land where less than two decades ago there was no provision for the education of women under Chinese auspices at all, and this co-education of today, while...
...moral side, the development by the Chinese officials themselves of an anti-foot-binding crusade and the official outlawing of opium have been remarkable, and we have a contrast of a very significant sort between the action of the British government in refusing to agree to the total abolition of opium because British merchants held such a large stock of it already in store in Shanghai which must first be disposed of before the abolition should become effective, otherwise they would lose the several million dollars involved, and the action of the Chinese government, a pagan government if you will...