Word: kind
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Suppose, my friend, twoscore more years have passed over your head, and you are bringing your hopeful son to the kindly arms of Alma Mater. With pride will you point out the place where you were arrested by the Port peeler. Approaching the then venerable Holyoke House, you will say, "Here, my son, is the very gutter in which I lay till the kind arms of comrades carried me to bed." With what admiring awe will your son regard you, and how he will endeavor to tread in the steps of his illustrious sire...
...REPORT of the recent Athletic meeting was published in the Boston Herald last Sunday, containing such abusive and improper language that it is to be hoped that Herald reporters will in future be excluded from any proceedings of the kind which may occur in college...
However, there is an entirely different kind of fault-finding, which, though often not less ridiculous than the former, merits more attention. These ebullitions of college discontent, remarkable chiefly for their number, find vent in the college papers; hence, in order better to judge of them, it might be well to examine a recent copy of the Advocate...
...Memorial Hall to Harvard graduates who had fallen on the Confederate side also. The Nation replied, though indorsing the ground taken by Judge Devens and General Bartlett, "To put up tablets .... to persons whom its builders do not reverence or love - i.e. the Southern dead - would be a kind of absurdity difficult to describe, if it were not an act of hypocrisy...
...incumbent on themselves to fill quite a number of seats at the Alumni dinner. This conduct, though in the first instance it may be the result of thoughtlessness on their part, still is unpardonable, and it would be well in future for students who contemplate indulging in this kind of pastime, to pay a little regard to the feelings of the graduates. For they must know that graduates feel that they have a peculiar right to come back to the old spot once a year and enjoy themselves by themselves, and they regard as an intrusion the entrance of undergraduates...