Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...perhaps the most laughable work in the performance. The best handling of a part, however, is that of R. Wellman '03, who impersonates John Class, the antiquarian. The part is the most difficult in the play and it is rendered with a cleverness which is enhanced by a distinct enunciation. If one especial fault is to be found with the other principals, it is an inattention to the matter of enunciation...
...South is one of the three distinct divisions into which this country is divided, according to pronunciation. The northeast and all west of Ohio form the other two. Pronunciation in the South is very characteristic, for the southerners have not mixed with the many specific instances of southern have they been affected by immigration. Professor Babbitt then gave many specific instances of southern pronunciation...
...Mabilleau began by showing how from the very beginning religion was the first tie of French nationality. Under the old regime Church and State were one, but the great effect of the Revolution was to establish an equilibrium between two distinct social forces. The tendency of the past century has been towards a more complete separation of these powers and the consequent lessening of the influence of religion on politics...
...years has been greatly to raise the quality of the instruction throughout all the courses and half-courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it is obvious that the candidate who shall hereafter obtain the Harvard degree in three years will have to give, on the average, distinct evidences of higher scholarship than has been expected of his predecessors in any former generation...
...excess of very ordinary word painting and lack of restraint, but has a certain maturity of style that saves it from being commonplace. Perhaps the most entertaining bit of prose in the number is "A Christmas on Black Pearl Island," by S. Greenfield. In a few words a very distinct and altogether original incident is brought out, set in a style, erisp and interesting...