Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Palmer declared that aside from any religious benefits there was a very distinct value in the daily morning service merely as a means of starting the day right and of developing a habit of regularity. He said that the preachers who occupied the pulpit for short periods of a week or two were always leaders in their profession and seldom failed to bring with them some new thought. At no other time in the day is there an opportunity offered comparable to that of morning prayers for securing complete relaxation and for viewing one's daily life...
...intercourse. To these men assembled in Freshman gatherings all sorts of advice and exhortations are presented, and the valuable opportunities of college life are set forth. But after these few meetings the Freshman class splits up into a large number of small groups, for the most part isolated and distinct from one another. Pre-college acquaintanceships and preparatory school friendships from the basis of this class subdivision. This is the prevalent condition that causes President Lowell to remark that "exhortation and advice are well-nigh fruitless without a favorable environment...
...distinct slump appears to have taken place at Yale after the break in practice of the past week. In the game with Brown on Saturday, which Yale won by the score of 10 to 0, the teams were on an even footing throughout the greater portion of the play...
...season commencing rather later than usual and the early weeks being given over almost entirely to rudimentary drill, a distinct lack of team-play resulted in the Maine game. After a week of hard scrimmages, however, the game with Holy Cross showed a very encouraging development. A marked versatility of play was evinced which had hardly been expected and the backfield first gave evidence of ability to play an open game...
...seats are allotted otherwise than alphabetically; A's in the front row, Y's, and Z's, if any, in back. After all is said and done bout the student who is here to work deriving all possible good from College no matter where he sits, there is a distinct handicap in having one's name begin with Y and being relegated to a far corner of the room. No one who has ever sat in the balcony of the Chemistry Lecture Room in Boylston will deny...