Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast in a part not entirely natural to her, and throughout the first part of the performance it was clear that she was making an effort to forget herself. Nevertheless, from the end of the opening scene, and throughout the play, she managed to build up a distinct character a living personality of moods and feeling well rounded out in every detail...
...needed to correct a state of affairs which had steadily been growing worse, with a continuing disorganization of school clubs. The main difficulty had been a notable lack of hospitality for visiting school teams on the part of the University; and with respect to the University, not only a distinct lack of correct information in the schools, but also a noticeable presence of misinformation and misrepresentation. The purpose of the committee is, in short, the more efficient organization of existing school clubs and the formation of new ones from schools where none exist...
...Harvard the difficulty is less serious. Our problem is simply to keep the new school which is growing up from breaking off and becoming distinct from the College. Men do not come to the Engineering School for its own sake; they come to Harvard to study engineering. It is therefore imperative that the distinction between the two schools should be kept at a minimum. At present the Freshman Year, as at Yale, is supposedly common to both schools--the men are assigned to the same dormitories; English A is required for both; and in other ways the privileges and requirements...
Decorations will be much the same as last year with only one or two innovations. Supper will be served continuously from 9 o'clock on, and consequently there will be no necessity for a distinct break in the program of continuous dancing...
...three heads, education for the professions, for vocations, and for avocations. Of these the university training once included only the first and the last, the thought of vocational training in college having been abhorrent to the cultured mind. But within a decade or two there has come a distinct change. "During the past few years," says the latest Saturday Evening Post, "the colleges have been swelling their catalogues by the addition of so many new groups of vocational studies that a caustic Frenchman who has lately been studying our educational system was led to observe that 'In America you have...