Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Colleges, like individuals, have their distinct virtues and defects. The virtues may blind one to the defects, and vice versa, the defects, in some rare instances, may obscure the virtues. The defects of colleges, moreover, may, as with individuals, prove to be what Sir Thomas Browne has well termed the defects of their qualities.' This seems particularly true in attempting to draw comparisons from as unbiased and detached a point of view as possible, between two such different institutions as Princeton and Harvard. In the case of Harvard, the special 'quality' it would seem to possess is that of individualism...
...While one cannot fail to cherish pleasant and grateful memories of his association at Harvard, it is certainty a most agreeable experience for him to enter the life of so distinct a universality as Princeton. The first and enduring impressions are of an atmosphere of strong, considerate fellowship that pervades the whole University and two as well. It is an atmosphere that encourages and stimulates: that makes one soon feel himself to be an integral part of the place...
These are three distinct types of newspaper stories: the story founded on misinterpreted facts, the story built up by a prejudiced correspondent with a few names and a spiteful imagination, and the story made out of whole cloth by a clever reporter-prevaricator. They indicate the task that confronts the News Bureau...
...effect before the spring of 1915. The motion to allow any except the Senior class to have a class button was defeated. The movement in favor of such a button was started by the Sophomore class some time ago but it is thought that the custom should remain a distinct Senior tradition. An amendment to have the Freshman president a member of the Nominating Committee of the Student Council was passed...
...general work during which the forwards took turns carrying the puck against a defence. Coach Winner then divided the squad into six teams, each of which was given a fast ten minute scrimmage. Although the work of team A was exceptionally fast for a first practice, there was a distinct tendency on the part of the forwards to leave their positions while everyone's playing was rather ragged. Both team A and B caged one goal, Devereux scoring when the puck was deflected off Clafin's stick; Wanamaker's goal for team A, on the other hand, was clean. Doty...