Word: distinguishedly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...preceding Saturday, resulted in an unexpected victory of 24 to 14, for '77. The game last Saturday resulted in another Freshman victory of 16 to 4. The Freshmen naturally feel quite proud of their Nine, which certainly contains some very good material, and, with proper training, may distinguish itself next summer. We give the score of the last game...
...grave argument like this, there is another aspect of the case which is all important. When examinations are based wholly upon a syllabus, the students are encouraged to rest content with superficial study; at other times there is a tendency, at any rate, to force those who wish to distinguish themselves to wider research...
...offer of a special course for post-graduates." Our limited space prevents our copying half so much as we should like, but we cannot help quoting two of the things which, according to the author, a catalogue should be expected not to do. "It should not neglect to distinguish between resident and non-resident professors, and between professors and mere lecturers. A college may engage a lecturer, residing at a distance, to give 'a course' of five or six lectures on chemistry, geology, or what not, and then put his name in the list of instructors. Such an array...
...description, makes the mistake of supposing that imagination is common sense turned inside out, instead of common sense sublimed. The writers of this style of poetry have been so well and so often satirized that one can hardly speak of them without trespassing upon ground already occupied; but, to distinguish them beyond a doubt, it may be said that, of this school, William Morris, perhaps, stands upon the highest round of the ladder of respectability, and Walt Whitman upon the lowest...
...able to capture them at will, or furnish them to order. In nine cases out of ten, wearied with his fruitless endeavors, he descends to a lower plane, makes use of vulgarity, and passes it off for wit. Some, as we have before hinted, seem unable to distinguish between the genuine and the spurious article; others there are who, from their moral status, seem incapable of appreciating anything genuine, who derive their intellectual nourishment almost exclusively from trashy literature. Among these our writer, provided his production gains publicity, is welcome. But as this uncultivated class is not supposed to exist...