Word: distinctively
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rush" was over, but it is still undecided whether the freshwomen are to wear back hair. It is true that the back hair of their champion was seized; but, on the other hand, they claim that they captured twenty-four distinct sets of back hair from their opponents, and, hence, that the victory was really with the freshwomen. The question is a new one in educational annals, and unless the proposal already made to submit it for decision to the presidents of Yale, Harvard, and Columbia is accepted, it may remain unsettled, and a fruitful cause of perpetual discussion among...
...suggestion, however, of a differentiation of studies as a part of the scheme of general education is open to the objection that the meaning of a college degree will not be as distinct and specific when such a scheme has been put into operation as it has been heretofore. We all know what we mean by an educated man, though we may not be able to put our meaning into a formula. We do not mean the possession of a technical knowledge, nor a mastery of the routine of any calling by which money may be earned...
Considerable interest was manifested in the tennis games played last summer in England between the famous Renshaw brothers and the Clarks, because these games seemed to be a fair teat of two distinct styles of play, which may be said to be fairly representative. Mr. Evelegh, who was referee in these matches, recently expressed himself in the most unprejudiced manner as very much pleased with the play of the Americans, which, of its style, was the best he had ever seen. But he also said "that the style was entirely wrong. Against men of the Renshaw 'calibre,' they played...
...York Times is justified in its gloomy view of the future of the national cheer, nor that it does right in ascribing so great a share to American colleges in bringing about the present "degeneracy" of the practice. The popular cheer and the college cheer are essentially distinct. If the good people of this country choose to conform the style of their hurrahs more or less to the fashions set by the colleges, surely the latter are not to blame. The form of cheering adopted by any college is its distinctive possession and invaluable birthright. The practice forms...
...following words : "I must, then. avow my own deliberate opinion, arrived at in the teeth of the strongest possible bias and prejudice in the opposite direction arrived at with the fullest possible knowledge of every single argument which may be urged on the other side I must avow my distinct conviction that our present system of exclusively classical education, as a whole, and carried out as we do carry it out, is a deplorable failure. I say it, knowing that the words are strong words, but not without having considered them well; and I say it because that system...