Word: distinguishable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...together. After this it seemed nothing strange to go into the class room, take my assigned seat and go through with the recitation entirely oblivious to the "distraction" next to me. To conceive of this feeling of disregard for the occupant of the next seat, one must distinguish between the typical boarding-school girl, who is sent for an education, and the mature woman who goes for an education. Very rare is the exception when a lady does or says any thing in the class room or on the campus which would not become her in the drawing room...
...Scrub" nines at Yale which play occasional games are there called "amateur," to distinguish them from the University nine, which is looked upon tacitly as "professional...
...four years of residence at college were spent in the acquisition of Latin and Greek, a smattering of mathematics, enough of logic to distinguish barbara from celarent, enough of rhetoric to know climax from metonomy, and as much of metaphysics as would enable one to talk learnedly about a subject he did not understand. The students lodged in the dormitories and ate at the commons. The food then partaken of with thankfulness would now create a riot in a poor-house. At breakfast, which was served at sunrise in summer, and at day-break in winter, there was doled...
Another peculiarity of the University of Michigan, which I might mention, and which in the dark might serve to distinguish us from Yale, is that Harvard is a very popular college here...
...there is another circumstance which tends to mitigate the "evil efects" of this system of scholarships - the way in which they are awarded. A man, in order to receive the benefit of such aid, must distinguish himself in his studies, and this can he done only in two ways: either he must have extraordinary natural ability, or he must show himself capable of most diligent application. Now will the HERALD insist that a man possessing these qualities "cannot do much to ennoble his profession?" I say the influence a man shall have on his profession depends on the man himself...