Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well-behaved members of the Association." The analogy the CRIMSON draws in regard to proctors in dormitories I consider far fetched and inapplicable. The presence of the proctors in the dormitories is a matter clearly established by custom. On the other hand, the closing of the gallery is a distinct abolishment of a custom already established...
Botanical Club.Professor Goodale spoke last evening on Public Museums of Natural History. He gave an account of our University Museum, founded by Louis Agassiz, and pointed out the lines on which Alexander Agassiz has fostered its growth. A public museum like ours has two distinct functions: First, the accumulation and utilization of materials for research; and, second, the display of selected specimens for the instruction of the public. He described the principal museums in this country and Europe, and closed by a short description of the interesting public museums in the Southern Hemisphere...
...books, and students who cannot afford to provide themselves with a small library on the subject would find themselves handicapped. A pamphlet has, therefore, been prepared which contains, besides matter intended to be helpful for the special work of the course, a set of classified readings referring to several distinct groups of books. By the use of this system, in connection with the College and Evans Libraries, a student can get through the year without spending more than five dollars for books. The proceeds of the half-dollar fee, and any surplus ultimately resulting from the publication of the pamphlet...
...wish to call attention to the announcement in another column of Dr. Sargent's class which will meet next Monday. Although the work of this class is of a less prominent nature than the athletic sports, it supplies a distinct need in the University. Last year more men applied for membership than could be accommodated in the limited space which the gymnasium affords and we therefore urge upon men who wish to join the class to hand in their names at once...
...Trinity, if it is contrary to our reason, we cannot accept; it is only when it is put reasonably to us that we believe in it. We cannot conceive of three separate persons making one person, but we can conceive a God, one person, who has three distinct attributes which for lack of better terms we regard as distinct personalities. Last there is the eagle, standing for knowledge. As a bird rises above the world and looks from a height over everything, so from the height of knowledge we can take a broad and intelligent view over all things, past...