Word: distinguisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word-blackboards. I ruin my eyesight trying to decipher diagrams in Harvard 6. I lose thirty minutes in copying hundreds of figures on paper in my accounting class that meets in upper Massachusetts. I fall to get assignments and notices because at times it is impos- sible to distinguish between the board and the chalk. On occasions I have seen instructors give up illustrating on the board, realizing the futility of their attempts to make the chalk write. Does such a state of affairs deserve comment? J. VINCENT SPADEA '23 March...
...those competing in the Harvard-Dartmouth-Cornell Indoor Triangular Meet, in the Indoor Intercollegiate Meet, or in the short distance relays of the B. A. A. games. The proposal also stated that an "H" should be awarded to members of record breaking relay teams and to runners who distinguish themselves on a winning long distance relay team against Yale, the latter awards being subject to the approval of the Track Advisory Committee...
What, then, is wrong with the reader? Besides a very human desire for sensationalism, he is unable--according to Mr. Allen--to appreciate the proper value of the important news items, "to distinguish the A. P. dispatch from the special correspondents' forecast of conditions, and the fact story from the rumor story, or to take into account the probable bias of the paper...
...last act. One can't help wanting to believe her beautiful lies. Ralph Remley, her son, literally takes the house by storm; if he would forget about shouting into the balcony, his acting would fill the part well. A noticeable flaw in the ensemble was a failure to distinguish between high and low life: it is a case of democracy to the negation of the individual. Viola Roach, the old Copley favorite, is relegated to a minor part and further handicapped by crutches, the penalty of a sprained foot. Of the others, Frank Charlton as the kleptomaniac deserves most commendation...
...foreign politics to understand the peculiar importance of curing the existing disorder in the Far East and the effect of such a cure upon the peace of the world and the limitation of naval armaments. That part of the American people which is most interested in peace does not distinguish between land and naval armaments and the difference of political objects which provoke nations to undertake one rather than the other. It does not see that armies raised a much more unmanageable group of questions, particularly from the point of view of the American government, than navies. It has interpreted...