Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medical School has always borne in mind its two distinct functions: that of producing doctors for the community, and that of discovering and studying the science of which medicine is made. It has been charged recently with merging the first, its primary duty, into the process of the second, whereby instead of general practitioners, specialists emerge, as the by-product of an intense program of research. The thousands of completely educated and competent graduates who have braved the financial and social rigors of general family practice, especially in rural districts, testify to the falsity of this accusation. Vanderbilt Hall...
Ever since it was founded the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art has performed two distinct functions: it controls the only gallery in New England regularly exhibiting modern art, and it is the only student art club at Harvard. The practical conflicts between these two functions have prevented it becoming a powerful or self-supporting institution. Because of its duty to the public on whom it depends largely for support it can not be directed entirely for the undergraduates; on the other hand it is they who run it, and naturally it expresses their point of view, which has occasionally alienated...
...over the quartet mentioned above. Wells was a distinct disappointment last year. There is no getting around that. He was heralded when a sophomore substitute for Barry Wood as the coming light of the Crimson. Here was a man who could run and pass and it was the running that the sport writers seemed to think--in 1932--that had been seriously neglected. He was a remarkable field general too. But long before the Yale game people were wondering when Wells was going to open up. They found out that he could run once in a while, that at times...
There are, one recalls, four distinct college seals, each of which has its adherents. Which of them will be under the Library-keeper's right arm on October...
...course, was the expression of the President's wider reflections on education: while he said nothing definite enough or specific enough to serve as a basis for predictions, he did reveal enough to cause fore-bodings. Throughout the address, references to scholarship, research, and similar subjects sounded a distinct overtone. Such allusions may point the way to a gradual, almost imperceptible shifting of academic emphasis from the teacher to the pure scholar, a shift which, if violent enough, might well affright the student. No one, to be sure, denies the value and inspiration inherent in the words of a great...