Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...surroundings are entirely alien. They are among a people who speak a strange tongue, whose sympathies are not with them and possibly never can be, so great is the difference between the Asiatic and the citizen of the United States. Homesickness, which the medical authorities have dignified as a distinct disease under the title of nostalgia, must affect hundreds of the soldiers in its most acute form. If the people at home will send the boys something to remind them that they are not forgotten, something to impress them with the hearty sympathy of the American people...
...this year's Monthly not only is a capital one in itself, full of really valuable things, but also promises to be the first of a very successful series. It combines--as College magazines almost never do combine--suggestive treatment of contemporary questions with the furtherance of a distinct literary purpose...
...fundamental and legitimate motives for enlistment are the desire to be serviceable to one's country, and of devotion to those ideals which one's country represents. Our country represents for us two distinct ideals-an increasing liberty and an increasing well being for all men. Beyond the exemption of physical infirmity many cases of conflict of duties arise. In France the limits which legislation sets to the citizen's declared duty of bearing arms, recognize under various conditions the supremacy of duty to the family over duty to the state, the permanence of the family being a supreme object...
...longest of the tales and the most ambitious is "Little Anne" by C. S. Harper 3S. The characters in the story are very distinct and each one personally interesting. This writer understands the use of pathos, which figures largely in his second story, "Number Two Seventeen," the sad history of a convict and his too-long delayed pardon...
With tonight's contest Harvard's debating activity for the year of '97-'98 will be practically over. Whether or not with a climax of victory remains to be seen, but whatever the result, we feel justified in saying that the present year has seen a distinct advance in the debating system here, and in two directions too. Not only has the organization of a Sophomore Club increased facilities for debate, but the consolidation of the 'Varsity clubs has unified the whole system, and promises to keep the best debating men working together in the interests of the University, instead...