Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...find distinct evidence of a high civilization in Babylon as early as 3800 B. C., and by 1500 B. C. the Babylonian-Assyrian culture had spread over Western Asia to the Mediterranean. But our knowledge of that civilization, said the lecturer, has come to us during the present century, most of it indeed since 1840. The French began investigations in Assyria in 1843, the English in 1845, and a society in Philadelphia has during the past six years made some valuable discoveries. In 1842 M. Botta, French consul at Mosul, was instructed by his government to make some explorations...
Sargent gives out very quickly and on the long stretches shows distinct signs of weakness. Donald is a hard but at present ineffective worker His stroke is generally ineffective. He pushes down his legs and pulls in with his arms at the same time, making his stroke very short. He does not apply his strength as effectively as he should...
...considering their inexperience, the Harvard speakers did themselves credit. It seemed to us then as it seems to us now that intercollegiate debate demands too great maturity and experience on the part of the participants to be undertaken by freshmen with thorough success. The Freshman Debating Club has a distinct sphere within the University in training men for the great debates with Yale and Princeton, and it should confine itself to this task, which would certainly give it enough to occupy all its time...
...this statement might have been made with perfect justice, but today it is too sweeping an assertion to be perfectly true, though it still holds good with regard to several of the larger universities. At Harvard there is undoubtedly still a faculty supervision of athletics but it is quite distinct from official control. The active government of athletics at this University is in the hands of the Athletic Committee, of which three out of nine members are also members of the Faculty. This committee has for several years had complete charge of the athletic interests here, but this can certainly...
...seemed so active this winter as in former years, and we hope that this does not signify a falling off in interest among its members. The club in the past has held a high reputation for excellence in the quality of its work, and there has been a distinct growth each year in interest, with a corresponding rise in the standard. Each exhibition has been better than the one of the year before, and the present one should prove no exception to the rule...