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...University of Chicago both students and facility are required to wear the cap and gown on all important public occasions. Different styles distinguish the several grades of students, fellows and faculty...
...this way it is hoped to encourage the best schools in their efforts to send boys who will not only meet the minimum requirements well, but distinguish themselves in one or more departments for which they have special aptitude...
Already the holiday numbers of Harper's and Scribner's Magazines have appeared and except that they have increased in thickness by half an inch or more and bear decorated covers there is very little to distinguish them from ordinary issues. It is to be admitted, however. that one can hardly demand more than one gets in the regular numbers, such is the excellence of the contents both literary and artistic...
...presented to make an error, it was accepted unhesitatingly. Highlands and Bates, on the contrary, pitched well for the greater part of the game, and between them struck out fourteen men. Mason caught Highlands, and for the first time this year, Trafford caught behind the bat. He did not distinguish himself yesterday, and it will take considerable practice to develop him into a really good 'varsity catcher...
...material for history is the record of the life of man expressing himself as a social being. This is an arbitrary definition, but important as helping to distinguish our science from others...