Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinct relief to hear that the Committee on Character and Fitness of Applicants for Admission to the New York Bar has decided that a college degree should be required of all applicants. Almost all of the college graduates applying for admission to the legal profession have been found to be "well fitted both in character and education." Perhaps seventy-five per cent of those with only secondary school education were considered "seriously deficient in general education and general background." The motive for choice of the law by the latter was generally hope of increased salary. Few of them...
...step comes as a distinct innovation in the development of the Confidential Guide. Hitherto, it has been published in the fall with criticism of courses beginning in the first half year. This most recent Guide has been designed to accord some similar treatment to the large number of courses that now begin in the second half year...
...Joseph Jastrow of the University of Wisconsin replied, not sparing Sir Arthur in his absence. He put spiritism in a class with witchcraft, hysteria and paranoiac illusion, charging spiritualists, as distinct from psychic researchers, with "wishful thinking and logic-blindness." He was at pains, however, to appreciate the large significance of spiritualism's implications, whether they be baffling truth or "stupendous" error...
This last innovation is a distinct departure of CRIMSON policy. Hitherto, undergraduates have been compelled to wait until their third year before being given an opportunity to express their views in the editorial columns. The competition will be for Sophomores and Juniors alike, and to distinction will be made between the competitors of the two classes...
...harbors and rivers teem in the spring. Before spawning, matured eels fast for months, their ultimate death re sulting from starvation. The small eels that return by the myriad are at least a year old, having developed out of a larval stage which Science long took to be a distinct species of surface-dwelling fish, leptocephali, notable for their complete lack of reproductive organs. The presence of eels in waters blocked from the sea by high falls, and in land-locked ponds and lakes, is readily accounted for by the eel's ability to live a long time...