Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although each House cannot have its own Widener, the libraries ought to be supplied with a minimum of books in all departments. A distinct lack in any subject would be unfair to men concentrating in that field. There is, however, no reason to expect a complete duplication of books among the Houses. Through gifts or through special interest of its staff in some subject, each House may very possibly build up an unusually good collection in some field...
With many universities emphasizing, as Harvard is, higher learning in the liberal arts, there is a distinct need for good "colleges" of the Chicago type. Whether or not such "colleges" do develop the professional schools would make no mistake in studying some plan for the admission of specially able men who have a general education, even though they have no degree...
...Harvard School may have influence on progressive methods in education, it must have some effective means of publicity. As a medium of communication between the School and the growing portion of the public which is interested in the vital problems of education, the Harvard Teachers Record fills a distinct need...
Clarissa was superficially a very false person. Her accent was obviously a good imitation, her voice was usually controlled. But she had money to burn and a distinct idea of the kind of conflagration she wanted. When she decided to marry worthless Fitzmaurice he was not particularly glad, but he philosophically divorced his wife, made over his little (laughter Sophie to Clarissa. Sophie's grandmother, the Princesse, a fascinating woman with a genius for attracting calamity, trailed her poverty-stricken menage all over Europe, but Sophie never saw her again till she was grown up. By that time Clarissa...
...talk will be given on the second floor of the museum, and it will use the paintings in the permanent exhibition there as examples of restoration. There are two distinct methods of restoring a picture, one is by merely covering the blank spaces with flat color, without attempting to reconstruct the detail, and the other is by trying to paint the picture as it was in the original, before mutilation. Examples of both types will be shown and explained in the talk...