Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fastest backfields in the East by defeating Syracuse, 62 to 0. In the five games which Princeton has so far played it has scored a total of 234 points. In no game, however, has the line been given a severe defensive test and last Saturday a distinct weakness in charging was apparent. The scoring was due very largely to the Syracuse backs' inability to tackle, nearly every touchdown being the direct result of a long starting...
...magazine has been founded. One of its most important uses will be to furnish a means for the publication of original compositions by undergraduates and recent graduates, thus stimulating this important side of creative work. Considered from a purely literary standpoint, it should furnish undergraduates with practice in criticism distinct from that obtainable on other papers. Whether it will satisfy the hopes of its editors remains to be seen, the fact that Harvard has been the first to enter this field in this or any other country is certainly a point for satisfaction...
...result of this competition. The two men elected to the board will be those who have shown the greatest energy and skill in soliciting advertisements and subscriptions, in co-operating with the business editors in the management of the details of publication, and who have shown a distinct fitness for the positions by marked, general efficiency. More detailed announcement of the work expected of candidates will be made by the business manager this evening...
...that of Midian which was destroyed before Gideon because every man's sword was against his fellow. If this be true of institutions whose professed object is unselfish, how much more of those whose primary object is gain. In such a case the manager has a sense of two distinct obligations, one to his stockholders and one to the public, and these are not infrequently more or less in conflict. For the one he will be called upon to account speedily by those who have power to discharge him: for the other he may be called to account...
...order to concentrate in a single festive occasion the recognition by the College of undergraduate scholarship, an innovation has been made this year in the announcement of the names of the winners of academic prizes and distinctions. Hitherto, the names of prize winners have been published as soon as the judges came to a decision as to the successful competitors. This year, however, the names of the various prize winners have been withheld and will be announced on Monday next by President Lowell in a public meeting at Sanders Theatre. Notwithstanding certain minor objections to this plan, it seems...