Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...general opinion among college baseball experts that the building up process already begun by Captain Legore will result in the best team Yale has had in many years. There is an abundance of fine material left over from last year's nine and several players of distinct university calibre from last year's freshman team...
...Class Day Committee wishes to draw the attention of Sensors to the competitions for Class Day ticket designs. The drawings should be distinct in order that the reproduction may be clear. Designs should be done in black India ink on white paper, and should be for and one half by seven and one-half inches in size. Every design must bear that following words...
...successfully carrying out the field tests of the Provisional Regiment in 1912, as a distinguished member of the General Staff Corps, as military attaché to Berlin, and later as instructor at our Service Schools including the staff college. While his separation from Harvard at this time is a distinct loss, he is ordered to Washington to undertake a task of greater responsibility and importance to the nation. Captain Bjornstad is a splendid man with a master mind...
...spring competitions for the CRIMSON board will commence on Wednesday, February 14, the week after mid-years. This will be the last opportunity for members of the Class of 1918 to try for the board, and the first opportunity for 1920. There will be five distinct competitions for the news and business staffs from the Sophomore and Freshman classes and for the editorial board from the Junior Class. This will also be the final news competition...
...congress of English teachers recently assembled in New York found itself discussing whether its members do teach English; whether the language spoken by Americans of the rising generation is merely a dialect, or whether it has attained to the dignity of a distinct "American" tongue. Professor Scott, of the University of Michigan, hails the day when this indigenous language will be officially recognized. It will apparently be composed of our vernacular Esperonto, with a few relics of our Trans-Atlantic heritage as a concession to tradition. Mrs. Smith will extend bids to a dance. Policemen will become cops...