Word: kind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Still, it is necessary that any kind of a workman should have good tools, and a college education undoubtedly furnishes much that a journalist needs in his profession. Horace Greeley, after he had risen to promineuce as an editor, felt his deficiency in that regard. Some of the brightest and most graceful editorial writers have been men whose training and equipment was had at college. Henry J. Raymond was a notable example of this. I might mention also Manton Marble. Mr. Schuyler, of our paper, is a college man and a writer of so graceful and pure English that editorials...
...York Press has sent circulars to the Yale seniors asking the question: "What kind of a girl does a college boy like best?" Rates of six dollars a column are offered for answers to the question...
During the past year, several important changes have been made in the style of the bi-weeklies at Yale. Up to the present year, the Courant and the Record have been conducted on the same plan, and they have given themselves up to the lightest kind of literature. But Yale is unwilling to support two papers of this style, and to meet the demand of the University the '88 boards of editors have made radical changes in the respective fields of the Record and Courant...
...cage and the minstrel troupe is one of the most popular organizations in college, the seats, although only put on sale this morning, are almost all gone. There are thirty performers and six end men, and it is thought that this performance will surpass anything of the kind ever given here...
...weight. Strength is obtained by bracing together two or more systems of trusses. These trusses are made of beams bolted together in triangles, so that the load is distributed into forces acting longitudinally on the beams, either by tension or by compression. To build a bridge of this kind, a scaffolding is necessary to support the materials while being put together. When it is impracticable to build a scaffolding on account of the currents, the bridge is built from each end so as to meet in the middle. The ends are balanced by piers near the shore and anchored firmly...