Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduates in such fields fall into two distinct groups, those fitted for advanced research work, and those not so equipped. Some provision in a college must be made for both. In Physics, a Plan A and Plan B tutorial system might save the situation, as the sparse rays of tutorial instruction on the group I and II men could be focussed, and the less intelligent or less conscientious could shift for themselves...
...designate, the question "Is Landis really the man?" needs a bit of public airing. For to many who were profoundly pleased at the selection of Mr. Landis a few months ago, on the basis of his brilliant legal thinking and his diplomatic handling of the S.E.C., it comes as distinct shock that the new Dean of the Law School has shown doubts about the illegality of the sit-down strike and has come out in favor of the Supreme Court change...
...Only a distinct improvement in the play of the Varsity baseball team will produce a win when it travels to Worcester today to tackle Holy Cross at 3 o'clock on Fitton Field...
Appearance within the last decade, and especially this year, of a deluge of pictorial magazines, newspapers, and other publications presents a problem far too significant to be passed over. At first such literature was limited to two distinct groups: the tabloid sheet and the more refined but less exciting photographic magazine. Although the tabloids freely admitted that their aim was to give the public photographs of intimate and compromising situations, only those people who were notorious for such activities were bothered. Now, however, the outgrowth of this seems to be more far-reaching in its scope. Everybody who could possibly...
...expense of the University and have free use of all its facilities. Receiving no credit for courses and ineligible for any degree, they devote their whole time to productive scholarship and independent research. The Society is designed to meet the problem of associating future creative scholars in a distinct body that will have an attraction for ambitious young men of talent...