Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...says of the banquet: "The hall at Harvard is a truly noble building which under some stress was made capable of holding 1200 guests. The repast was simple in the extreme; there was no wine on the table and the eating was soon over. It was a refreshing contrast to the uncomfortable grandeur of English public dinners. The audience had come to listen and did not waste time needlessly! (This exclamation mark is our own.) There was no formality, cigars were speedily lighted and every one prepared to endure the speeches as long as speeches were forthcoming. Even the departure...
...that comparisons are odious but it is human to make them and therefore natural to contrast the "Acharnians" with the "Oedipus." Whether prejudiced in Harvard's favor or not, I think no one would deny that the "Oedipus" was the much more interesting production. The "Acharnians" lacks that strong human interest which a tragic story has in every age. Personal invective (like the attacks on Lamachus) must lose some point in the lapse of centuries when the attacked person has been well-nigh forgotten, while the sufferings of the Thebauprima are always affecting. Again, the "Acharnians" did not give...
...take a curious way to apply it. For instance, all disturbances in a private room are instantly checked, the moment the sound thereof reaches the precise proctor's ear, and woe betide the man who by some ill fate occupies a room directly over the proctor. But what a contrast to this is presented where any body of the students, notably a certain sophomore society, may with impunity wake the echoes of the Yard absolutely at any hour of the night with the joyful news of newly elected members or the memories of an evening brawl. Surely the absolute certainty...
...guests, royal and otherwise, jaunty young corps students with their bright-colored caps throng impetuously into the hall. As is usual in a bier kommers, there is some preliminary attempt at literary exercises, either to ease the consciences of the revellers, or, what is more probable, to sweeten by contrast the subsequent carousal. There is some brief speech-making and bowing and toasting and responding by the Grand Duke, and introducing formality. But little by little the deck is cleared for action, and the men settle down to the serious business of the night. Now by the beard of Gambrinus...
...ball far oftener than they held it, and the rushers were expert at getting the ball near the line only to give it into the hands of an opponent and see it kicked back to the middle of the field. The two halves of the game were in marked contrast with each other. The first was perhaps the best the team has yet played, the second, the most wretched. In the beginning of the second half the half-backs fumbled terribly and seemed to lose head entirely, the quarter-back passed wildly and poorly, and for some moments it looked...