Word: kind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard's attempt for 1887 seems to have been to overcome with unprecedently heavy rushing, the always sharper tackling of Yale and Princeton, and Harvard's success at this kind of game has been remarkable. Harvard produced an eleven of enormous weight both in the rush line and behind it-and this great physical power was concentrated with considerable skill. The Harvard system is very superior to the heavy rushing game that was so assiduously practiced by all three colleges some six years...
...only say now that the prospect is bright for a very large increase of our educational facilities, and that, too, in behalf of a sex which has not always been favored with its full share. The city, as such, can do little legally, to aid any enterprise of this kind, however meritorious, but I understand the park's commission to be of the opinion that, if there is a likelihood of the establishment of a richly endowed college for women in close proximity to Clark University, Worcester should at least manifest its appreciative sense of such munificence by the ample...
...appears desirable to record in the Academy that a third signature has been found, the discovery of which was on this wise. At the suggestion of the writer, and with the kind and ready assent of the hospital authorities, search was made among the monuments, under the direction of Sir Arnold W. White, chapter clerk. The result was the unearthing of the original counterpart of the lease, dated July 29, 1635, by which the hospital demised to "John Harvard Clerke and Thomas Harvard Citizen and Clothworker of London," certain tenements in the parish of All hallows, Barking; and the counterpart...
...horned rhinoceros, the gift of the Hon. P. T. Barnum, has been received at the Barnum Museum, Tufts College. This is the only specimen of the kind in any college museum...
...universities unless they intend to have them study for a regular profession. One should imagine that this custom would lead the young fellows to bend to the task of laying a foundation for the task of laying a foundation for their career with increased earnestness. But nothing of the kind really occurs. On the contrary a strong reaction sets in from the grinding discipline of twelve years of schooling and one year of military service. This generally comes between leaving school and going to the University. The young fellow is left to his own resources for the first time...