Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feeling of altruism, but is out to do his best to gain a position on an editorial board or to win the insignia of a team. The editorial position or the letter represent his proficiency in the line of work he pursues. Similarly the undergraduate scholar is ambitions to distinguish himself in scholarship and is cager to win the mark of proficiency in his field as is the athlete. The facts of the matter are that both are striving for excellence in their respective fields, and for excellence as measured by the standards set in those fields...
Certain features of Saturday's game stamp the 1912 team as the greatest of all Harvard elevens. Not only was it fast and aggressive and ever ready to take advantage of Yale's miscues; not only did it distinguish itself by fighting with as great determination and spirit as has ever been shown by any team; but it played one of the cleanest and most sportsmanlike contests of football ever seen on the gridiron. This victory over the hard-fighting, clean-playing Yale eleven was one of the greatest ever gained by Harvard and to Captain Wendell, who has proved...
...remarkable progress of the last century has established a new profession, based on laws which that progress itself has revealed. So we may now distinguish between the skilled mechanic and the newer type, the engineer. The former is actuated by commercial motives only; the latter, the creation of the advance in natural sciences, possesses knowledge rather than skill and has for his ideal the ultimate benefit of mankind. This latter type is the man we refer to when we speak of the engineer; his profession is engineering...
...will follow closely the general scheme of design of the Union, and that it will hamonize with its surroundings. Brick and limestone are being used in its construction and have been laid so that, as soon as the new building becomes slightly weatherworn, it will be difficult to distinguish it from the old. The passages which connect the two are being cut through the walls of the Union as fast as the work progresses far enough. At present those in the basement and the first and second floor have been made. The walls of the building have reached the second...
...English spoken in the United States is made up of many dialects, and we can tell at once where a man comes from by his manner of speech. With the negroes, however, there are 12 distinct dialects, which the ordinary American cannot distinguish. Mr. Smith paid a warm tribute to Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris for adding a unique page to English literature. Negro faithfulness cannot be overrated. In the old days the southerners entrusted the protection of their wives, mothers, sweethearts and daughters to negroes. Today the newspapers are filled with accounts of their atrocious crimes. This...