Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...what should be sought is not, as the Utilitarians said, the greatest sum-total of good, but the highest organization, - the greatest good which can be obtained while still keeping development of the individual; in other words the modern idea is the greatest good to the greatest number of distinct individuals, as opposed to the Utilitarian idea of the greatest sum of good...
...decision. A formal decision would really settle nothing. Every listener must inevitably decide in his own mind as to the merits, of the debaters and no ruling of judges could affect that decision. A formal decision could only add an unpleasant feature to the joint debate wishout bringing any distinct gain. Even what emphasis it would give to the rivalry between the two colleges would be emphasis to the objectionable side of that rivalry...
Last evening the first of these meetings was held, in 2 Weld. Mr. Horace E. Scudder spoke about books and book-publishing. He said that many men have a distinct desire to enter literature, but at the same time do not feel enough confidence in their abilities to permit a definite choice of letters as a life-work. At the same time their love of books is so strong that they cannot tear themselves away from them. In a publishing-house, run on the large scale of many at the present time, a variety of openings is offered to just...
Petrarch was the first great figure of the Renaissance. He is distinct from Dante not it his Italian poems nor in his love for Laura, but in his being possessed by the passion of the Renaissance. Virgil is not only a guide but a master, a supreme authority, whose style, whose every peculiarity must be absorbed as must the whole spirit of Greek and Roman civilization. Petrarch assumes the Roman point of view and speaks of the barbarians, meaning the French and Germans. These were the nations who had founded great Universities, had developed Gothic architecture and had produced...
...from three to seven men, and the premium reduced to 20 cents on each of twenty-five tickets, instead of 50 cents on each of ten. If the students held the place all night the men in a group could relieve each other. The college men were given a distinct advantage over the ticket speculators who could only get ten tickets...