Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecture room, and light them before leaving. German students have everywhere the same general appearance, and like the German youth as a whole are rarely as well dressed as English or Americans, even where the clothes are good. The unbecoming flat caps with their varying colors serve to distinguish the society men, although a similar baoge is also conimonm the lower schools...
...thoughts serves to call up an ideal representation of the man. It is indeed true that an ideal model is a fit one to take the place of the unattainable statue or portrait ; to flatter is not always to falsify. Besides the Latin "simulacha" does not always distinguish between real and ideal, true and false images. Were all the busts and statues in Rome, Naples and Florence portraits from life? Art may sometimes fail to represent truly even those great men whose portraits and descriptions we have. Wendell Phillips warned his descendants not to be beguiled by Boston statues...
Another advantage which the distinguishing uniforms will have is that the sophomores and freshmen when they come to have their rush on returning to Cambridge will be better able to tell who is who and to distinguish friends from foes. The desirability of special features in the parade, devised and carried out by private parties and clubs, cannot be overstated, as a large number of such exhibitions lend variety to the display. The general committee are endeavoring to add as many novelties as they are able; but the worth of the display must depend largely on private individuals. Every suggestion...
...strongly, a method employing the dictionary largely in translating the author's ancient and modern, and altogether ignoring the sound of a language. In fact it was a reasoning system, one that was largely made up of grammar and "trot" and that did not teach a man to distinguish the subtle differences in measure and order by his ear (an organ which seldom errs) but by complex rules, committed to memory with much labor and easily forgotten. In the English colleges of a few centuries ago, it was an ordinary circumstance to carry on a conversation in Latin...
...they regard as the more civilized portion of the country. There are some who are roused by the ambition of a Marlborough-to amass a great fortune. Others are sure they are born to stir the world. Others, still, have the spirit of a Swift, who only labored to distinguish himself that he might be used "like a lord," and that the "reputation of great learning might do the work of a blue ribbon and a coach-and-six." Numbers, too, like Charles Lamb, are carried away with the idea that a life of leisure is the great object...