Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...opportunities which the Association offers to all Harvard men are most valuable. The two principal lines of activity are those in the University and those outside. The latter, having more to do with social service work is perhaps of greater interest; but the two fields of endeavor are not distinct, but rather work most satisfactorily together...
...glad of his knowledge. But these things will carry him no further than courses on chemistry, botany and biology, however useful, would carry a student of medicine. The tissue and substance of the professional training of the forester, just as in the case of the doctor, are quite distinct and peculiar. I do not believe that we have anybody here who could pretend to give this training, and even if we should secure some one to do the teaching, we should still lack proper equipment. It is misleading to speak as if the College, apart from the professional schools, could...
...distinct and technical the training of a real forester must be very few people seem to understand. Even your editorial betrays a common misconception by speaking of the "esthetic side of the profession." A forester may have an esthetic side just as a lumberman may, but forestry itself is no more concerned with esthetic questions than is the lumber business. In fact in the east forestry is nothing but scientific lumbering. Its object is commercial. Its problems are expressed in terms of board feet, rate of reproduction, access to a market--terms which a landscape architect has nothing...
Reed opened for Harvard. The negative argument, he said, was grouped under three distinct heads. First, that the present law is unenforceable strictly; second, that it is practically irrepealable; and third, that the attempt to enforce it would fasten evils of the greatest magnitude upon New York City. Of these three points, Reed considered the first two from the point of view of existing conditions in New York. It is impossible to prevent the extensive violation of this law by any ordinary means or to enforce it as one of the general body of laws. Both parties to every illegal...
...lectures on "The Canon Law in its relation to Marriage," will be given by Dr. J. Cullen Ayer on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 12 o'clock in Sever 13, beginning tomorrow. Among the topics treated will be: The rise of the law of marriage of the Church as distinct from law of the State; the theory of the marital relation in the German codes; the Canon Law in England; legal impediments to marriage; the theology of marriage; the relation of marriage to modern...