Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is nothing startlingly new in the statement of Mr. Andrew V. Corry, in his series of articles on Oxford current in the CRIMSON, that calls Oxford a "University of Colleges" and Harvard a "University of Faculties." The contrast of these two terms throws light on a number of related points particularly timely just now, when the names of Harvard and Oxford are being connected in many minds as two which are coming more and more to imply the same things...
...sharpening the contrast, already glaring, between Gladstone and Disraeli, he pictures two extremes in Mary Anne Disraeli, loquacious, garish, flighty; and Catherine Gladstone, industrious, charitable, but merry withal. Nothing could be more respectable than Gladstone's cadenced marriage-proposal in the moonlit Colosseum; nothing more indecorous than Dizzy's pursuit of newly widowed, wealthy Mary Anne. But Mary Anne met gossip with gossip: "Dizzy married me for my money, but if he had the chance again he would marry me for love"; and lavished on him the affection a straight-laced Christian age had grudged the fantastic...
...first point of contrast between Harvard and Oxford is that afforded by the surroundings of each. At Harvard we are always reminded of the city. The subway and the traffic in the crowded streets remind us a thousand times a day that a great city is near. Pedestrianism is fast becoming impossible. If the wary walker manages to elude the traffic that girdles the Yard, he takes his life in his hands when he strolls by the Charles. Let him walk in the Fenway, in Jamaica., or to the pond near Belmont, he is always aware that the city...
...sharp contrast, artistic as well as factual, is Julia Peterkin's cadenced history of a Negro woman who never left the plantation, and yet developed a mature philosophy, spangled with ancient superstition. Si May-e's story touches peaks of high comedy, drops to depths of black misery, and through it all glows the indomitable vitality of Si Maye herself...
Another possibility is that the strenuous efforts made during the last few years to divert some of the flood at its source have had a tangible result. In contrast to the lean days of the past century when needy universities beat the publicity drums far and wide to attract customers to their displays of educational wares, the present attitude is distinctly diminuendo. College is a waste of time for many students; for a purely business career it has few practical uses; those who come for social reasons are an unmitigated evil. Such statements have become familiar to the reading public...