Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON of recent date presents for approval one of the most magnificent instances of student precocity of the year. It harks one back to the time of the Children's Crusade, of which the outcome was their capture and eventual use as youthful slaves. Of course, there is a distinct difference in that the Harvard undergraduate has reached the maturity of long pants and an occasional opportunity of voicing his tenuous views on politics. Yet like school children they are beginning a national student political campaign even before they have learned to articulate...
Like the Cherry Sisters, the Independents' show is not funny. The Independents of 1930, as of all other years, have a distinct penchant for fat nude ladies, bulging, specific nudes in green, orange and red, lolling in intricate positions. There are nearly a hundred such creatures in the show and not a fig leaf among them. Though there may be considerable humor in one livid nude with triangular legs sprawling on a studio chair (the fat ladies who pose for Independent artists seem to have a distinct disinclination to stand up for any length of time), a hun-dred...
...dealings with the Senate were the most difficult, the least successful. It took, he realized, a politician to get along with politicians and there his predecessor had had a distinct advantage over him. The men who campaigned the hardest for him?Iowa's Brookhart, Idaho's Borah?were now his chief critics. The apparent uncertainty of his stand on tariff rates had become a standing Democratic joke, in spite of his careful explanation that it was not his duty to legislate on such matters. Some of his friends were urging him to exhibit a new and bold leadership, to carry...
...revolutionary movement away from the established form of college education is embodied in the proposal of President Robert Mayard Hutchins of the University of Chicago to divide the university into three distinct units by splitting the present college into a "collegiate" and a "university division, leaving the status of the graduate schools unchanged. The purpose of the projected reform is to eliminate the rigidity of the present system by abolishing Freshman and Sophomore classes as such by incorporating them as a single entity in a more or less preparatory "collegiate" unit where promotion to more formal educational pursuits...
...most collegiate minded of motion picture producers has recently provided a few hours of tense excitement at Amherst College. There have been class rushes of almost every conceivable description, but setting the greater part of an oil-soaked Freshman class on fire is certainly, an innovation of distinct originality. Unfortunately, the peculiar nature of the incendiaries indulged in by the Amherst sophomores did not alleviate its evils with the result that a number of Amherst's erstwhile flaming youths are now cooling off in the college infirmary, some of them seriously burned. Moreover, the affair was only prevented from becoming...