Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...told that if success in this project crown the efforts of Harvard men, "a meed of praise would be awarded them greater even than they would obtain were they to bear off the honors at the next Saratoga contest." Here, then, is an opportunity for Harvard to distinguish herself! With what pride should we say to the victors at Saratoga: "You have won the race, but we have supplied mental nourishment for our Wellesley sisters...
...wished that other gentlemen would follow his example, for the payments on the debt amounted last year to about $3,900. The change of the title of the College Steward to the "Bursar," which has been thought an affectation, was made in order to distinguish that officer from the steward of the Dining-Hall...
Another change that should be made is the addition to the Holworthy Club of some of the "outside" members of Holyoke. This could easily be done by curtailing the Holyoke territory; and although Holworthy may have shown her ability to distinguish herself without the force of numbers, yet it can never be fair for the clubs to be so unequal in size as they are at present...
...public of the present day, and the merit of their works as compared with that of their predecessors is fully discussed. By frequent illustrations upon the piano the student is easily shown the effect which different composers had on the music of their day, and is enabled to distinguish and compare the different styles...
SOME critical remark in a recent number of the Magenta greatly offended the Virginia University Magazine, and that publication declares that we are altogether too self-sufficient. We regret that our Southern friends are unable to distinguish between conceit and the pride of conscious merit...