Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind the dozen experienced oarsmen available to the scholarly mentor from previous campaigns, there appears a distinct drop in quality, and, besides worrying about the present Varsity, Bolles will have to build for 1943, since most of this year's Juniors are rowing for the last time, what with the war and accelerated programs...
...Bingham, the new program is directed towards preparing Harvard students in so far as is possible for the military or war duties to which they may later be called. It has been adopted in the feeling of the Faculty and the University authorities that the College has a distinct obligation to help condition all students who are liable for the military service...
...students is the description of the "New Deal for C.O.'s" which tells of the fine work done by the Quakers and others in setting up work camps for religious pacifists. Finally, Mike Levin's article on the high-pressure tactics of orchestra booking-agents should be of distinct value to anyone responsible for college dances, while his suggestion of a centralized board to handle orchestra booking for the colleges should, if feasible, provide an excellent method for future economics in finance and effort...
...announcement in Tuesday's Crimson that the Fine Arts Department is to offer a course in camouflage came as a distinct shock. That camouflage is a "fine art" to be practiced by artists and their parasites is a fallacy which should long ago have been discredited. Moreover, the Fogg is incompetent to deal even with the very minor part of the problem which painting comprises...
...Pianists Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, Manhattan's Ray Lev are among Uncle Tobs's famed virtuosos. To plain people, the chief point of the elaborately philosophical Matthay principle (Matthayites hate the word method) is: no dry, mechanical finger drilling. Matthay-trained teachers are still a distinct minority among the 100,000 piano-marms of the U.S., but Matthay-like ideas are moving in. About one-third of the nation's 1,500,000 piano students are no longer subjected to those scramble-noted exercises composed by implacable Karl Czerny, who is widely believed to have hated...