Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seeking a really broad education this is a distinct hardship. Either they must neglect their college work or they must sacrifice some of the intellectual opportunities that present themselves in and around Cambridge...
...That intercollegiate matches have a distinct value in stimulating sports, which are the best form of physical exercise in youth, few people would be inclined to deny; but the single, boat race between Oxford and Cambridge on the Thames, and the cricket match between those universities, supplemented in each case by a series of intramural contests, has been enough to stimulate unflagging interests in those sports among the students. Judging from the effects of the race at New London, one may ask whether or not the same plan would be sufficient in football. The necessity of maintaining for this purpose...
...Institute of Technology, a School of Public Health; and in the Medical School, departments of industrial medicine, of tropical diseases, and others germane to the general field. The Rockefeller Foundation suggested to us last spring that these agencies should be combined in one school, to be organized under a distinct faculty while retaining an intimate relation with the Faculty of Medicine. The Foundation proposed, if this were done, to assist in developing the School. The suggestion was in the direction of expanding what we have been doing, and was accepted gladly.. . . The School will have for its object both...
...upon any principle recognized as imperative by faculties, alumni and spectators. The public interest in the sport, as a spectacle, has become general over the country, and has increased markedly since the war. It has tended to give excessive importance to college athletic contests. That intercollegiate matches have a distinct value in stimulating sports, which are the best form of physical exercise in youth, few people would be inclined to deny; but the single boat race between Oxford and Cambridge on the Thames, and the cricket match between those universities, supplemented in each case by a series of intramural contests...
This reflection, which the Chinese representative courteously ignored, then to influence the minds of the Chinese students, who form a distinct and influential factor in Chinese affairs. In Washington some of these students have demonstrated against the continuance of the conversations. Nevertheless the Chinese representatives have proceeded with the discussions about the table, relying, for public appeal, upon the presence of the observers and the ultimate report on the subject to the Conference...