Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the publication of the results of the Phillips Brooks House Association Spring Drive for clothing many facts which will be of distinct service to University psychologists were brought to light. Among other things a badly used inner tube was believed by one benevolent undergraduate to be of value to the destitute of Asia Minor...
...managerial competition is still open and all Freshmen who have considered entering it are urged to come out. Contrary to a recent report, previous experience in a Freshman competition is in no way necessary. The competitions are entirely distinct from each other, and as the records of the last few years show, success in the second by no means depends on having won one of the positions in the first...
...therefore propose a new general literature course for students concentrating in science. The present arrangement is unsatisfactory because the same courses are made to serve two distinct classes of students whose needs are different. Students who have no interest in literature are bored by the mass of technical detail which they must master in order to satisfy the requirements of the instructor...
...will not permit the acceptance of a healing half-truth in place of the rending whole. In spite of the unbending character of his hero, Arthur Train makes an interesting indictment of political chicanery. Although the great god of coincidence may be a trifle overworked, one nevertheless gets the distinct impression that justice is a some-what sottish spirit with a bald, perspiring head and an opportunely winking...
...first place, it is proposed that a new general science course be organized specifically for students not concentrating in science. The report states that the present arrangement is unsatisfactory because the same courses are made to serve two distinct classes of students whose needs are different. Students concentrating in science need to learn the tools and the technique of their subject. Those who take a course merely for distribution have a cultural motive. But when both groups are subjected to the same methods of instruction, as they are at present, the cultural motive is subordinated or entirely lost...