Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this latest volume the author of "The Medieval Mind" gives a sympathetic and scholarly survey of the period which is commonly called the renaissance. In accord with his theories he avoids this term, however, because of its popular implication that the culture of this period was of a distinct and original character and not a gradual growth out of prior time...
...University should have some large social affair during the present football season. The fact that the ball at the Copley-Plaza before the Yale game last year was tremendously overcrowded, gives reason to believe that such a function here, even though conflicting with some Boston dance, would meet with distinct favor...
Heretofore, all agitation for an extension of the tutorial system has come either from the faculty or from those comparatively few older students who have had some experience under the proposed system as it exists in Europe. It is a distinct departure from existing habits for a body of undergraduates seriously to devote themselves to the problem of getting more out of college than has been gotten before, and is a good sign of the change that is taking place in the student's attitude toward his work. The Educational Association has siezed on a good idea; non are more...
...Morton Denison Hull Prize of $250 for the best essay on municipal government is open annually to post graduate students who are, or who have been, within a year preceding the date of the competition, registered or a resident in any college or university of the United States offering distinct and independent instruction in municipal government...
...make the introduction of "ringers" temptingly easy. Above all it would give the University with large graduate schools, law, medical and business faculties, a tremendous and obviously altogether unfair advantage over the college without such graduate enrollment. It seems certain that Pennsylvania's action will be looked upon with distinct disfavor among Eastern colleges...