Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout the discussion which the "cross-section" plan has aroused in the University, one fundamental need shines clearly forth. This can be described as the need for "house personality" or, in other words, necessity for a distinct intellectual trend in each house, recognized and accepted by the house authorities. Such a movement would have the effect of clearing up much of the present ambiguity in regard to the selection of houses by freshmen and, would offer these men a definite means of choosing their future residence with some degree of surety and logic. As it is at present, the freshmen...
This year there will be a more distinct general theme--"the role of government in the national economy"--and an attempt will be made to insure the presentation of a well-planned agenda, whether the subject be employment, currency and credit control, or even one of the other subordinate headings. Further, it is planned to bring reports of the conclusions of each forum before a plenary session, there to be read and finally used as the basis for a discussion by a guest speaker. The result, it is easily seen, will be the showing of the whole diamond, rather than...
...advantage over Harvard on the gridiron, and, more specifically, to the fact that if such a rule were in force here in Cambridge, Harvard would probably not have lost here second football captain in two years. Natural result of even a brief survey of these facts is a distinct feeling that either Yale should be made to let her athletes out of the scholastic penalty box at the same time we do, or else we should release ours when they...
Trusts in all their variations are woven into the whole fabric of Boston life. A Bostonian who is not either a beneficiary or trustee of at least one personal trust fund is liable to find himself at a distinct social disadvantage. Boston is the home of the oldest investment trust in the U. S.-Boston Personal Property Trust, founded in 1893. Boston is also the home of the open-end or mutual general management trust, which is usually called the "Boston-type trust...
...work as chairman of the House Committee on Labor & Industries has won him Labor's tacit approval. Unless the Democratic machine can keep the name of Senator Coolidge's son-in-law Robert Greenwood off the November ballot as an independent, the Governor will be at a distinct disadvantage. Many an observer of the Massachusetts contest thought that Nominee Curley was more likely to beat himself than Cabot Lodge...