Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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What has become of the various denominational political clubs that organized with such flourish not many week ago? Those organized to support particular candidates for nomination, to be sure, apparently no longer have any distinct function as the caucuses are over. But if they are to pass out of existence, should not there be an opportunity for those who so eagerly jointed them to hear the reports of their officers, to dispose of what funds there may be in the treasuries, and constitutionally to dissolve...
...Abraham Edward Pinanski 1L., for an essay on "The Street Railway System of Metropolitan Boston." This prize is offered annually for the best essay on a subject in municipal administration written by a student of any "college or university of the United States which affords distinct instruction in municipal government...
...condition we have a College Glee Club that is acknowledged to be one of the best. The members know and render admirably the songs which they choose for their program, but a college glee club is not intended merely to give public entertainments or dual concerts; it has a distinct function within the College. It should not only sing to the students, but should lead them in singing and serve, as its name implies, to make jovial occasions more jovial...
...Faculty and athletic committee insist upon abolishing winter intercollegiate sports, no doubt for the first year an attempt will be made at intracollegiate sport; but such a form of competition has never been a distinct success, for the reason that such victories that might be gained are never satisfying to the healthy-minded undergraduate. The satisfaction of contact and occasional victory in honest rivalry make intercollegiate contests interesting, and as soon as the chief motive for competing is absent, the effect will be evident...
...important and interesting exhibition of prints and engravings of famous physicians and surgeons has just been opened at the museum of the Medical School. Three distinct collections are represented, engravings, mezzo-tints, and other examples of reproductive work from the private collections of Dr. Walter G. Chase '82 and Dr. Ernest D. Young; also a large group of works contributed by the Royal College of Surgeons of England...