Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Turning from our American institutions of learning, where there exists a recognized equality among students, to English universities, we find there great class distinction. The under-graduates of the University of Oxford are divided into six distinct classes, distinguished from one another, not only by certain privileges, but even by their college dress. The following are these classes...
...Devil has always been my favorite character in fiction. And, if we may judge by the extent to which he figures in the literature of every age since the Christian era, he has always been a favorite with both readers and writers. The Devil is distinctly a Christian character. The Greeks, the Romans, and the Oriental nations, all had conceptions of spirits of evil of one kind or another, but all quite distinct from the Devil. The Old Testament contains a character very slightly sketched, which Christians have generally identified with the Devil. But the spirit of evil who tempted...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-The members of the Co-operative have joined the society with the distinct understanding that they were liable to an assessment, in case the society runs into debt. It was stated in the CRIMSON, the other day, that the objection to an assessment was, that it would take too long, and that, in the meanwhile, the society had no money to carry on its business with. Has not this objection been removed now ? About four hundred dollars have been subscribed. Why can not the society continue its business with this money while they are raising an assessment...
...collection. A condition of the gift is, that "there shall be secured, as soon as possible, for this condition and for the rest of the Divinity School library, a more adequate and safe place of keeping." The school thus stands in pressing need of a fireproof library building, distinct from Divinity Hall, yet connected with it by an easy passageway. The advantages of such a building would be threefold...
Messrs. Fenno, Watson and myself consented to serve as members of the committee on the distinct understanding that we should have full powers over all matters relating to the University races and crews...