Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of courses-often thin, arid and duplicating-offered in the principles and methods of education; (b) an insistence that persons engaged in training teachers in various branches of learning shall, first of all, be competent scholars in these fields; (c) the abandonment of the conception of a distinct 'science of education' and the reunion of education with the great streams of human knowledge, thought and aspiration. . . . The weaker normal schools and teachers' colleges should be closed, while the remainder should become centers, not of pedagogy as traditionally conceived, but of knowledge and thought." Besides this body...
...going to leave this pleasant work and take up the most difficult task in the United States. The American college is being attacked on all sides and for all sorts of reasons. Many educators say that the college and the other departments of the University should be distinct and separate: I do not sympathize with those ideas, but I do know that to make a college what it should be, to have it be of service to all the students who come to if, is not be any means and easy thing...
...those on the bottom onto the top, leaving the lazy-industrious, grinding-brilliant, and privileged-deserving dichotomies intact. There is every reason to believe that far from blending with and stimulating "the 50-percent of the student body . . . called the Harvard community" the stipended scholars will be a distinct and imposing group...
...personifications of those influences which have played a major part in forming the character of the hero. This is not in keeping with the originally which, we are given to understand, is the distinguishing feature of the modern drams. Indeed --profanity of profanities--there seems to be a distinct echo of the Cabellian titers here and there; witness the title of one of the scenes: "The High Gestes of Hercules...
...sins and done penance (by prayers, fasting and alms). Such indulgence as he is accorded is operative not for any future sins but only for those already committed and genuinely repented. Certain indulgences may work to the benefit of souls still in Purgatory, a place of temporary suffering distinct from Hell, where unrepentant sinners abide forever...