Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...President by An Ancient Editor of the Advocate but is in reality an exposition of the present difficulties of the body academic at Harvard. Mr. William Phillips, Third Assistant Secretary of State, contributes a concise article on The Diplomatic Service of the United States which should be of distinct value to the student thinking of making that service his life work. Mr. Phillips has himself contributed towards raising the standard of both our consular and diplomatic services. Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez has a pleasant and facile swing in his Ballad of Harvard Square. His verse suggests Kipling, who has, above...
...with a tone of confidence in the possession of the true solution. One theory, often broached under different forms, and more or less logically held, is that the main object of the college should be to prepare for the study of a definite profession, or the practice of a distinct occupation; and that the subjects pursued should, for the most part, be such as will furnish the knowledge immediately useful for that end. But if so, would it not be better to transfer all instruction of this kind to the professional schools, reducing the age of entrance thereto, and leaving...
Although our primary aim in advocating the abolition of competitions for managerships is negative--avoiding unfairness to competitors and doing away with athletic subscriptions--the change would not be without its positive advantages. There would be a distinct gain from the fact that men abler and more representative than those ordinarily attracted by a competition, would be available. In every class there are a certain number of men, whose executive ability has been tested in other connections, whose personality has given them prominence; men too busy to undergo a long, tedious competition, but who would perform gladly and excellently...
Smiled solace to their scars" show no delicate sense of value in words; nor does the poem leave any distinct impression...
...going to leave this pleasant work and take up the most difficult task in the United States. The American college is being attacked on all sides and for all sorts of reasons. Many educators say that the college and the other departments of the university should be distinct and separate. I do not sympathize with those ideas, but I know that to make a college what it should be, to have it be of service to all the students who come to it, is not by any means an easy thing...