Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard was in a distinct slump from the start of the game and never seemed able to get back into its previous victorious stride. An unfamiliar field which was much springier than the one to which the University twelve was accustomed affected the Crimson's team work, and despite the sterling playing of Reed at second defense and Kelsey at goal they were unsupported by the rest of their teammates and the ball was continually in Harvard territory. Kelsey entered the game with an injured leg and had to be carried from the field after playing the entire game...
...some of the educational policies and conceptions they might expect from Editor Frank, Wisconsin had but to hark back to a speech he made, last summer, at the University of Michigan : "I dislike to speak of education, religion and politics as if they were three distinct fields. They are, or should be, an indivisible unity. . . . The professor, the parson and the politician are at work on the same job . . . the achievement of 'the good life' for the citizen and for the Nation...
...speech was taken in London as meaning a distinct warning to Germany and France, in Berlin as a warning to France, in France as a warning to Germany. But France, after thinking things over, became convinced that Mr. Houghton's speech contained a direct threat to her, was accordingly indignant, hotly resented being classed with Germany as "Europe...
...perhaps for nothing more than information as to "snap" courses, will have a refuge to which he can go and there pour out his troubles. Although in effect this plan shifts to the Freshman the burden and responsibility of making the first contact with his advisor, it is a distinct forward step in the difficult problem of helping the first-year man to adjust himself to his strange environment...
...disarmed state, Germany also is justified in demanding security. . . . Our attitude in this matter is so clear and distinct that there can be no mistaking our aims...