Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...teach this same lesson to the different peoples of the world. The land to which the Jews were going was not like Egypt, where the Nile supplied the place of the toiling husbandman; but a land where they must work for themselves. Change is one of the most distinct marks of our day, the best and the bravest. The land promised the Jews was a good one, but strange and full of dangers, where a, nation was to spring up beloved by the Lord. This is equally true of our country, the time is a good one, the best...
...Greeks were the one race which developed athletic games, and this fact distinguishes them from other races. During the period of transition in art the games were chiefly developed. Before, they had been part of the religious rites of certain ceremonial, but from 530 B.C., they assumed a distinct national character. The Olympic games were a plan of unity for the whole race; Greece laid aside all internal feuds to join in participation of them. In the 52nd Dynasty the statue of a victor was first fashioned in wood. This was very rough, but when the ice was once broken...
...room given for the display of higher genius and greater skill. Chief among the causes that wrought this change was the introduction in the fourth century of the nobler material marble, to supersede the wooden, chryselephantine, and bronze images of earlier ages. Marble, with its new qualities, made a distinct impression on the development of the artistic composition of sculpture. Improvements in the art of modelling with clay, the introduction from Samos of bronze castings, whereby the metal got the direct impress of the modeller's hand, the inevitable influence of painting and architecture on sculptural work...
...night was one of the biggest nights that any freshman class of Yale University has seen for many years. It is well understood that on Washington's birthday the freshmen usually begin to carry huge canes, called bangers. They had a holiday to-day in the college on the distinct understanding that there was to be no rush. A day or two ago, a committee went to Horace Wall, the proprietor of the New Haven Opera House, and desired his co-operation to put up a flag belonging to the class of '89. They also purchased nearly 200 seats...
...more than the corridor of many of the city hotels. This plan it is said will obviate the present tendency to the formation of cliques. This is far from assured. These so-called cliques are no more or less groups of men formed by commonality of taste or social distinction. To attempt by the formation of a common meeting place for the whole university to break down such relations simply argues a want of insight into the causes of these relations. There now exist many societies which, we venture to say, cover almost every need of Harvard social life...