Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immigration we are dealing with a changing problem, and one which is not capable of a final solution. In the last century 36,000,000 people have come to the United States, urged by economic, religious, political, social, and artificial reasons, but in recent years there has been a distinct change in the character of immigration. Mr. Alexander explained that whereas in the earlier years of immigration 98 1-2 per cent of those who came to our shores were from the northern countries, in recent years 70 percent have been representatives of Slavic races, less easily assimilated, and which...
Perhaps the best known characteristic of Antioch College was next discussed by President Eliot: its division into two distinct parts, the students spending half their time in study and half in paid employment. The element of half time work has wide scope and would affect very much the life and education in both our own and other countries especially as regards endowment and support of schools...
...performance, which gave promise of a brilliant season. Two of the principal roles were acted by Mr. Clive and Mr. Wingfield, who had done them almost as well before. Miss Willard played Eliza Dolittle with originality and grace. She was not able to make her flower-girl accent sufficiently distinct, except in the first scene, and this was perhaps the only serious flaw in her interpretation. Miss Willard is personally charming and an actress of considerable merit, who plays with feeling as well as cleverness. Mr. Clive's Pygmalion was exceptionally spirited, funny, and winning, even for him. Mr. Wingfield...
...problems that China is facing today fall into three distinct classes: political, industrial, and moral", declared the Right Reverend Logan Herbert Roots '91, D.D., Bishop of Hankow, in an informal talk at Phillips Brooks House last night...
...Graduate Treasurer and remarks that, "we can safely trust even his snap guesses in preference to other people's well-laid plans." The writer reads into the CRIMSON's recent editorial insinuations of "graft" and concludes by putting a chip on the shoulder of the Athletic Association with a distinct invitation to the CRIMSON to knock...