Word: distinctive
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There is another way in which a Latin play is instructive. Ancient poetry was a thing entirely distinct from anything which we call by that name in English. English syllables have essentially no length, though we do have a slight tendency to lengthen the accented syllables. This is the forest primeval, etc., is not dactylic in any real sense, nor is Twinkle, twinkle, little star trochaic. In fact, we could hardly write trochees or dactyls at all in English, certainly not so that one would recognize them as such without being told. Two-syllable feet are Pyrrhics and three-syllabled...
Attention will be repaid in several distinct ways. First there will be a lesson in the language itself. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Latin language is more thoroughly dead than almost any other dead language. Partly from the formal, serious, and matter of fact character of the people who developed and used it (or rather used and developed it), and partly from the manner in which it has been employed for the last thousand years, Latin has become a kind of monumental language, associated with epitaphs and triennial catalogues. It has ceased to be a natural means of expressing...
...think it only right, if the Directors should carry out some plan for accommodating a large number of men next year, that the Corporation should make some distinct pledge as to a new dining hall. The general table system was introduced at the request of the Corporation, being represented as a purely temporary matter-to continue only till the new hall was built. The pressure at Memorial has increased, the Corporation ask for still greater accommodations, but the new dining hall is as far off as ever, and the Corporation even say that there is no chance...
...first of the great masters of this time is Michael Angelo. He stands alone entirely distinct from all his contemporaries. His individuality was very strong and impresses itself into all his works. All his figures are of a somewhat gloomy type, but all are strong and majestic. He had none of the gentler or finer qualities essential to the painter, for he was not a painter, as he himself said, but a sculptor. He had a great command of line and was probably the most wonderful draughtsman that ever lived. His subjects are almost all religious. He had many followers...
...Warner, a member of the corporation of the Annex, represented the petitioners. He showed the rapid progress that has been made by the Annex since it was started fifteen years ago. He said that the purpose of the college in furthering the enterprise had not been to found a distinct woman's college, but to give to women the benefit of its collegiate course. Although the officers of the University do not deem it advisable to incur the expense and responsibility that would be involved by conferring degrees upon graduates from the Annex, yet they wish to give the Annex...