Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been proved experimentally that there are several distinct types of minds which assimilate under different conditions. The man with the auditory mind learns by hearing or reading; the visual minds learns by seeing; and the motor minds learns by doing. The present system of education completely overlooks the third type and gives only half a chance to the second. The man who is skilfull with his hands--the mechanic, the painter, or the musician, is not given the same opportunity for development in an ordinary school that the pure student receives. Although Dr. Abbott recognizes that some men master languages...
...awarded for the best essay on a subject connected with Municipal Government. The competition is open to post-graduate students who are or who have been, within a year preceding the date of the competition, registeed and resident in any college or university in the United States offering distinct and independent instruction in municipal government...
Yale fares the same as Harvard, being represented in one event, the running high jump, by R. W. Landon. On the All-American Athletic team, which is distinct from the All-American College team, in that it includes men with athletic club affiliations as well as college athletes, S. H. Thompson of Princeton was selected as all-round man. Cornell leads in the number of men on the two teams, having three representatives on the college squad and two on the main All-American. That the East is superior in stars of the einder path is proved by the selection...