Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard men C. L. Slattery's essay on Religion in Schools will be interesting from the fact that Slatrery graduated from here in '91. If the article on cathedrals sounds like a Fine Arts 4 paper, this essay has a distinct aroma of Philosophy 3 The last half of the paper contains some excellent suggestions...
...earliest literature was naturally of a mythical nature, and while we may smile at the old tales and legends it is to our advantage to know something of them. These old works have a poetical as well as a political value for us. At first there were the two distinct literatures of the Northern and Southern Celts, first of a Pagan type, and later influenced by Christianity...
Like most social questions this one has two distinct sides; the economic and the ethical one. In regard to the economic side, the deductions drawn from official reports, show that not less than seven hundred million dollars were paid for drink by consumers in the year 1880. This is no less per capita than one twelfth of the cost of the necessities of life; namely, food, clothing and shelter. Such a fact as this is very startling. Suppose we look at the subject on a small scale, and take the city of Cambridge, where there has for some time been...
...Cumnock and Trafford our grasp of the game has grown firmer; and we venture to predict that it will now continue to grow till we are successful. It would be presumptuous to say that men of the past did not know the game, but the knowledge of each was distinct and came always from defeat. The present policy grasps the principles more broadly, and aims at continuity. If all the men who have started this new departure will still further assist in the development of the game and if the University will appreciate this policy we feel that we shall...
...curriculum to in crease more and more the number of specializing courses in many departments, a very natural outcome of our elective system and the growth of the University Such, for instance, are many of the courses in the English department dealing with Anglo-Saxon poetry as distinct from the rest of ancient English literature, the courses on the poets of the various centuries as distinct from those on the prose writers of the same, the relation of English literature to German, and other courses of a like nature, all of which tend to make a specialty of some branch...