Word: ilk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...denied that President Dwight's vigorous policy and the athletic triumphs are the two things to which this increase is due. From And over Academy alone there are nearly 30 freshmen. Andover is a preparatory school that takes more interest in athletes than any other institution of its ilk. The young men from that school always go in the largest numbers to the university that has shown the best athletic record, be it Yale or Harvard. Yale has the big majority of these students this year...
...improve with every number. If a growing tendency to Courant-ism can be avoided, and the moral tone of college journalism can be steadily maintained, the outlook may be considered very promising. We beg leave to suggest that to ignore the Niagara Index, the Illini, and others of that ilk, would be a first step of some importance toward the desired...