Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor de Sumichrast mentioned in detail the many points of interest throughout the tragedy, touching upon the depth of character and strength of will of the various personages with a deep appreciation and sympathy which greatly enhanced the value of the subject. He called particular attention to the contrast shown in the manner of Pauline towards Polyeuctes at the time of the return of Severus and the meeting in the prison. In the first place her whole soul is occupied by her great love for Severus, there is no room for more than mere affection towards Polyeuctes; she is utterly...
...scheme of Mr. Lathrop, trainer of the Mott Haven team, was adopted. His plan was to train the men gradually, making the work a little harder every day, so that not until today should the team be in the best physical condition. Other years have shown a strange contrast. Usually the players have been overtrained two or three weeks before the game. This year, while in no single instance have they shown enough endurance for a Yale game, they have had more endurance each new day, and with the exception of one or two new men, whose worrying has handicapped...
Ninety-five was very weak in contrast to their game on Saturday. The Cambridge men were strong in their interference on round-the-end plays and worked together well...
tf.EVERY student should have some plaster statuary in his room, forming a pleasant contrast to the pictures. A large assortment of reliefs, busts and statues at Olsson's, 3 Harvard...
...rather as friendly rivals in the effort to tear as many as may be from the barbarizing plutolatry which seems to be so rapidly supplanting the worship of what alone is lovely and enduring. No, they are not antagonists, but by their points of disparity, of likeness, or contrast, they can be best understood, perhaps understood only through each other. The scholar must have them both, but may not he who has not leisure to be a scholar find profit even in the lesser of the two, if that only...