Word: distinctness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nothing which the many other clubs of the University are already doing. For instance, on a purely social basis the club has no excuse for coming into existence. There are already as many social clubs here as men have time to support. But if a western club has any distinct work which it can do, and we have already indicated that it has, then it should be organized for the distinct purpose of doing that work and nothing else...
...outlook was very bright. The managers secured estimates which showed that the saving would be as high as a dollar or two each week on every man. The consequent gain for our athletics was to be very great; the college subscriptions were to be reduced and a distinct advance in athletic management was to result...
...captains of the class elevens have acted wisely in making the rules to govern this year's series for the class champion ship. Two distinct improvements are made on the rules which have governed these contests in previous years. In the first place, an adequate method of determining who shall be eligible to play in the class games has been agreed upon; in the second place, the referee and umpire in all games are to be men who are not now connected with the University. These changes are sure to make the games much more satisfactory, and to remove...
...general rule, the students do not clamor to have college exercises begin at an earlier hour in the day. There has been, however, a very distinct wish on the part of a great many men that some change be made in the hours for the final examinations. According to the present method the student is obliged to write a large part of his examination in the hot, noon hours. He has also the drawback of being crowded in with a lot of other men who are also annoyed and made nervous by the excessive heat. If our buildings...
...have turned his literary shovel to virgin soil, although what he has unearthed is of rather a peculiar nature. After a careful perusal, we should call it a sketch with most (but not all) of the characteristics of a story; a sketch, in which there are delineations of three distinct characters,- one Horace Tennant, a Harvard graduate, cultivated and cynical, the well-springs of whose enthusiasm are not, however, entirely dried up, returning to his Texas home after an absence of four years-secondly, a Texas girl, plump and pretty, with a natural antipathy to books and other instruments...