Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chief value of the pictures found rests not in their artistic merit, but in the idea which they give of the method in which artists of the time treated their subjects. They were painted in the impressionistic style. Here are found two distinct kinds of pictures, those dealing with occurrences of everyday life and those treating mythological subjects...
...Cabinet system of government would have affected us. During the last twenty years we would have had at least five distinct and complete changes in our Government under the Cabinet system, whereas under our own system we have had but one complete change of party control. And that change was a gradual change. We have had a far more stable Government than would have been possible under the Cabinet system...
Last year for the first time the plan of having a Cycling Association separate from the Athletic Association was tried and proved very successful. A team of bicycle riders, distinct from the other Mott Haven candidates, was organized, a coach and trainer was secured and the candidates trained separately on a track properly constructed for bicycle riding. The change was a very beneficial one for the college cycling interests and promises to be still more beneficial in future. One of the plans for this year is to enter a team in six or seven different meets before the intercollegiate meeting...
...have at hand a volume entitled "Mornings in the College Chapel" (Houghton Mifflin and Co.), by Dr. Francis Greenwood Peabody. It contains a collection of short addresses on personal religion, delivered by Dr. Peabody at morning service. Each of these little monographs evolves briefly one distinct thought, a mere suggestion to be worked out to its conclusion by each individual and applied to his own particular needs. A large variety of topics are touched on, all of them personal and direct to a high degree, and treated in Dr. Peabody's characteristically straight-forward manner...
...MINSTRELS AT THE PARK THEATRE.- Primrose and West's Minstrels will follow "Chimmie Fadden" at the Park Theatre a week from next Monday. This year the company is composed of an organization of blacks and whites, each and every one said to be an artist of unusual excellence. Two distinct organizations rolled into one make the most gigantic organization of minstrel talent ever heard or dreamed of. Three military bands, one a pickaninny band of unusual merit under the able directorship of a European Conductor is an especial feature. All are uniformed in the most extravagant fashion. Two distinct first...