Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...population pressure and popularity are not diminished by such measures. And the Pomonians fell to reflecting that one good creation justifies another. They pictured a group of colleges, like but distinct from Pomona, growing up together as funds became available. As the picture became a fact, they planned a general library, certain special laboratories and a central administrative body to deal with matters (for example, honors examinations) of community interest and value. They pictured a growing milieu of teachers in congenial surroundings, with wieldy groups of students and a rare chance to test and compare pedagogical theories. They saw undergraduate...
...ridden country there is little opportunity for educational institutions to thrive. The result of this dearth of facilities for education has been a very distinct increase in the desire of the people for an opportunity to study...
...seat Mr. Nye. A small group of Democrats, a group which it was estimated are inclined to adhere closely to their legal opinions, did likewise. The bulk of the Democrats, the Insurgent Republicans and Progressives voted to seat Mr. Nye. There was much said about the real motives as distinct from the arguments openly advanced. It was said: 1) that the regular Republicans did not want another insurgent to disturb the narrow Republican margin of control; 2) that most of the Democrats wanted Mr. Nye for that very reason; 3) that the insurgents wanted one more in their group...
...work upon certain laws which would displease most foreigners a great deal. At Washington, President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg have maintained a portentous silence. The present Mexican regime was recognized a short time after the death of President Harding only after a U.S.-Mexican Commission had arrived at the distinct understanding that there would be no enforcement of the fourth clause in Article 27 of the Mexican constitution, under which it was believed that Mexican property and oil rights then appertaining (1923) to U.S. citizens might later be seized from them by the Mexican Government. While this understanding leaves Mexico...
...current Alumni Bulletin by R. S. Fanning '23 Although the existence of English B destroys the assertion that Harvard undergraduates are altogether without instruction in the art of speaking in public, it is nevertheless plain that the passing of English 10 and kindred courses has left behind a distinct void in the structure of courses which ought not long to go unfilled...