Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since the Germans primarily desire culture, then it is no more than feasible that they should adopt those measures which will ultimately lead to it. The plan of four-year curricula in the American Colleges and high schools is a distinct advantage over the present nine-year course of instruction in the German Gymnasiums. The American Instructor is able to associate with his students, and thereby becomes a psychological specialist in reference to them. The German student is ten years old when he enters the Gymnasium, and is at least 19 before he completes the course. These nine years...
...Yale wrestling team upset predictions Saturday night by defeating the University wrestlers, 16 to 9. in the lighter classes the Crimson men had a distinct advantage over their Blue rivals and were leading 9 to 3, when the 158-pound bout was reached. In this, Miller of Yale took a fall from McSweeney of Harvard in three minutes, 10 seconds, thus putting the two teams on ever terms. Yale then won the next two matches. Captain Russell defeating Hayne in the 175-pound class, and Allen winning from Captain C.H. Bradford by decision. Russell, who is the intercollegiate champion...
...youth movement, which are vitalism, creationism, and particularism. The new schools choose one phase of the history of mankind and try to penetrate into this phase using it as a means of forming a new all around, harmonious German personality. Under the new system we have four distinct types of Gymnasium corresponding to the four districts which compose modern culture. These four types are: first, the Humanistic Gymnasium in which the students take up the study of Classicism; second, the Europeanistic Gymnasium which takes up the phases of European language, history, and arts; thirdly, the Mathematical or Scientific Gymnasium...
...hour of noon will surely find me in Emerson A to hear Dr. Demos discuss Individualism in Philosophy 4a. I have a distinct partiality for this course on different systems of ethics, and I have attended the lectures as regularly as I do anything, which to be sure is a very conditional statement...
...issue, the Democrats may make some very good issues. Although Democratic voters in general will approve the entrance into the World Court, the repeal of the estate tax and the mere fact of the aluminum controversy added to the perennial tariff issue and viewed in the light of a distinct Democratic Party not leagued with the Insurgents, can give the Republicans the usual trouble at mid-term elections...