Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...book is, however, engrossing and exceedingly clever. A distinct power of analysis and observation appears in every story, clear vision combining with fearless statement to produce conviction in the reader's mind. We are indebted to the author for the best written book of fiction that has yet appeared on the subject of Harvard life, although narrow in its treatment...
...team play. On the other hand, Yale and Pennsylvania started with green players and pursued the policy of giving their teams hard, fierce work. No attempt is made to argue for or against any system of training. The writer maintains that the systems of '97 have led to a distinct advance in team play...
Ladies' Parts.Miss Cushing, who takes the part of Athalie, has acted before, in a one-part play of Coppe, called La Parter, and has also read in public. Miss Cushing has been working all summer over her part in the French play. She has distinct power, a fine presence, and a very good French accent...
...which offers to workingmen a pleasant and wholesome resort where they can be thrown on a seemingly equal footing with those who are interested in their welfare. The charitable work undertaken by Harvard men has always had such an aim, and the present step may be taken as a distinct advance and one truly worthy of support...
Unfortunately,however, the sale cannot be so restricted without the cooperation of the students themselves. The blanks have been issued with the distinct understanding that by the act of signature each man who fills one out pledges himself to use those tickets personally. There are more than enough in the college element to occupy all the seats, and every time an individual hands over his tickets to a speculator, or to a stranger, he is defrauding other college men of rights which he ought to protect. It is useless, though, to discuss that point further. Men who give the matter...