Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...person, whether graduate or undergraduate, to whom I have mentioned the matter. It is one in which we are all of necessity interested, yet the authorities in charge have not thus far seen fit to vouchsafe us the slightest explanation. Much as the new building ought to prove a distinct addition to the beauty of the Yard, this is probably the last thing it is likely to be according to the general verdict. Would there not therefore, to put it mildly, seem to be sufficient cause for a reconsideration of the site, or at the very least, for a publication...
...called to the increasing number of students admitted for short periods of residence. These men, it appears, are as a rule students of ability and application and so far from its being objectionable to give them degrees after short residence, the University, in President Eliot's opinion, renders a distinct service to the community in so doing...
Although defeated the Sophomores have yet the satisfaction of knowing that they and the club they represent have already been of distinct service to Harvard debating. The club is still in its infancy but has shown itself a live institution, and, though defeated by a younger organization, is under the disadvantage of being less representative of the best talent in the class...
...close sympathy with Nature, which to them was always good. Their emotions and passions were natural, on the surface, never restrained by social conventions. The perfect man was he who properly balanced and developed all the natural instincts in himself. Their intensely imaginative minds gave to their divinities a distinct idealization. Juno-the protector of the family-was conceived to be beautiful and severe; Venus was gentleness itself; Diana's nature was wild, untamed. It was to these ideal conceptions that the Greek sculptors were called upon to give worthy physical form. With such high ideals, and amid such favorable...
...athletics and of social questions so far as possible to the undergraduates themselves. The Athletic Committee's function is not to guide and develop, but to restrain. Its work is in a sense purely negative. In many respects this policy of non-interference is wise, but it has a distinct disadvantage, for it makes a permanent policy an utter impossibility. College affairs in these fields may be said to be under the control of the Senior class of each particular year. Each class as it reaches this responsibility attacks the problems it must meet to the very best...