Word: distinguishedness
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Seventy-four students learned yesterday that they have received the distinguished Hoopes Prize for outstanding academic research work.
Under the Staff’s proposal, those not receiving honors could more accurately be said to be dishonored. To make honors honorable again, the Faculty should cap honors at a much lower level. If, say, only 10 percent of graduating seniors received honors, such distinction would only be awarded...
JC: I think Harvard is a very verbal domain. We’ve got a long line of distinguished novelists, poets, playwrights, writers who come from Harvard; less distinguished, by far, is the line of painters or sculptors who come from Harvard. Something in the culture of the place encourages...
Debutantes are distinguished not only by their frilly dresses, but also by their regional affiliation—namely, North or South. As a New York City debutante, Stovell says that though the ball was a significant expense, she could see it being worse. “I think the South...
--Our stark cover photo of Yasser Arafat drew a number of surprisingly dissimilar reactions from readers. "I took offense at the picture showing Arafat as defenseless and pitiful," grumbled a Los Angeles man. "It's very misleading to portray him as if he doesn't know how he got into...