Word: distinguishes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...West, but remain couped up in cities and the so-called "sweating system" is a result. Protection claims to protect the American laborer and yet she allows our ports to be open to cheap and pauper labor. These foreigners do not understand our ways of government. They cannot distinguish between unrestricted freedom and liberty, thus anarchism and the numerous cliques and secret societies, with all their evils, arise. Law is the expression of public sentiment and if we put the control of elections into the hands of the immigrant our law will not represent the sentiment of the more educated...
...delightful reminiscence of "Mr. Lowell as a Teacher," by one of the class of '77, we fancy we can distinguish the touch of a prominent member of the English Department. It is a simple but graphic account of the author's relations with Mr. Lowell in 1876 and 1877 when he had the fortune to be his pupil. He tells of his first impressions of Mr. Lowell, his peculiar manner of conducting his courses, the influence of his wonderful personality upon all the men with whom he came in contact, the charm of his evening receptions, - or rather "smoke-talks...
...fell to crew 2. Crew 8 took in Whiteside to steer for them, and Fay coxswained crew 9. Crew 8 had the inside course, crew 2 next, and crew 9 outside. Crew 2 took the lead and finished half a length a lead. It was rather dark to distinguish which of the other two was ahead. Mr. Kennedy, the referee, thought that crew 8 was ahead. The winning crew was composed of R. Wheatland '95. Shreve, N. Hayward '95, and J. T. Kilbreth...
Today Harvard will have the chance to distinguish herself on several athletic fields. We sincerely hope and believe that she will bring glory to the college by well-earned victories. But even without these, Harvard men will no less have the opportunity to bring credit to their college by their bearing during the contests and after them. It is unpleasant to refer to a disagreeable subject; but at this time it seems necessary to give this one word of caution. Harvard men must not show, in their feelings after a victory or a defeat anything but a spirit worthy...
...Cincinnati contributes on that much-discussed subject, "The proposed shortening of the college course." He sets forth his opinions in an interesting and forcible way and offers the suggestion that students who are in a hurry to get out into the world might be given an A. B., to distinguish which from the genuine article, it might be written in old English letters or with the B smaller than...