Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither the theory of giving the honors candidate an examination in his Junior year, nor that of delaying it until his Senior year represents a distinct educational program. Each is a different side of the same coin. No question of individual freedom is involved; this is determined by release from tutorial and course restriction, and the opportunities are equally good under either plan. The difference is one of degree, rather than of kind; whether a course which dismisses half its subject after a hurried two years is wiser than one which carries general and specific along together, to the profit...
Jeremiah Smith (1837-1921) was one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire from 1867 to 1874. In 1890 he became Story Professor, retiring in 1910. Through his teaching, and the teaching of his pupils, he exercised a distinct influence upon the development of the law of torts...
Inasmuch as runabouts of this type are usually priced at about $3,000, Mr. Wolfe's exhibit attracted un usual attention. Mr. Wolfe has a distinct profile resem blance to John Barrymore. His catalog contains the profile and also a back cover illustration of a Meteor ambulance...
Kohler Speaker. Meanwhile, however, Governor Kohler won a distinct victory in the organization of the Wisconsin House. After 15 ballots, which included a 49 to 49 deadlock, Charles B. Perry, regular candidate for the House speakership, won over Alvin C. Reis, Progressive candidate. Mr. Reis was one of the signers of the Kohler-ouster petition. While his defeat was aided by the split of the Progressive faction between Mr. Reis and John W. Eber, 1927 speaker, the fact remained that the Governor's supporters secured control of the House, thereby the carnage sufferred by La Follettism...
...unlikely that John Daniel Hertz remembers going to Chicago at the age of five; long journeys, to children, are merely a blur. But certainly he has a distinct impression of the beating his father gave him, which amused him to run away from home at eleven. He solo his school books for $2, took up residence at the Waifs' Home, got a job as copy boy for the Morning News. Evenings, he hawked papers on Chicago street corners. His father made him come home and go tc school. Six months of that, and he ran away again. Back...