Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Alumni Association of the University Divinity School is planning to observe on October 5th the 100th anniversary of its recognition as a professional school distinct from Harvard College. The alumni do not admit that the School is only a century old for they date its foundation back to October, 1636, when the General Court of the newly settled colony voted money to establish the college, "dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministry shall lie in the dust." Instruction in theology was given in the college from the time of its first opening...
...structural detail, suggesting rather than copying motifs of numerous styles, from Karolingian austerity to Rococo playfulness. And the three main halls--the Romanesque, the Gothic, and the Renaissance halls--into which the interior is divided are conceived in the same large, comprehensive spirit. Each of them is of distinct individuality and brings out the fundamental features of the particular style of architecture which it represents, but only, so to speak, in sublimated, idealized form; while gradual and soft transitions of ornament and structure lead from one of these halls to another and make them all part of one noble unified...
...apparent cowardice and, the author implies, certain brutality. Might there not have been a third way out, the reader is tempted to ask? Mr. Moyse discusses "the Episode Play" with greater sympathy than it usually finds at the hands of the critics; he insists that it is a genre distinct both from the ordinary drama and from the motion picture...
University A showed a distinct check in its stroke when rowing at a low stroke, but when Lund raised the pace, some very smooth rowing was seen. The second crew had a great advantage in wind because of their position, but the showing which these eight men made was remarkable. The swing of this second crew was in perfect unison and R. R. Brown '17 at stroke paced a splendid two-miler...
Professor McElroy says: "In Princeton we have not instituted military drill, and there is little indication on the part either of the Faculty or of the student body of a desire to establish it. Modern military training involves two rather distinct elements, the one intellectual, the other largely physical. The first we believe to be part of a university curriculum; the second can be most economically and effectively managed by the National Military Training Camps...