Word: kind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...School men who had left Memorial). He buys the provisions himself, pays the servants and other little expenses, and gets his own board free for his services. The bill of fare is very much like ours at Memorial-steaks or chops, and tea and coffee for breakfast, the same kind of luncheon, and the same dinner, except that there is no fish, and there is one less vegetable, I think. And what do you think it all costs? It varies from $3.48 to $3.50 a week! And the boarders say that they are given perfect satisfaction as regards the quality...
...other questions concerning the college. But in the final paragraph relating to athletic sports, we find sentiments expressed with which we cannot entirely agree. Admitting that "foot-ball, base-ball, and rowing are liable to abuses." yet we cannot see that these abuses are altogether of the kind President Eliot mentions. Extravagant expenditure and betting are, to be sure, abuses which exist and flourish abnormally. Our position in regard to them has been taken for some time, as every one knows. But is the interruption of college work a very material one? Is there, in and among our athletic teams...
...would then have to expel him unanimously; or, failing of unanimity, some would have to resign and so break up the club rather than remain associated with him; and this sort of aggressive righteousness was to much to expect from men bred in our atmosphere. A challenge to that kind of righteousness was, it seemed. one which we could hardly count on men's accepting...
...answer to a question on Monday evening, President Eliot said that he disapproved of all intercollegiate contests of every kind, and would abolish them if he had the power...
...verse this number of the Advocate contains four pieces. "The Oak" is well-conceived; is very good in form. The writer has a peculiar bent toward this kind of simile and he handles it very well. Of even a more serious character than this short moral reflection is "A Song of Life and Death," which is a rather fine parable in verse. "Love's Arrow" and "The Rain" hardly deserve much comment...