Word: kind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...specimens are made by two artists of Dresden, Germany, named Blaschka, father and son, who are the only persons in the world who can do this kind of work. The models are made entirely of blown glass, and the modelling and coloring are so exquisitely perfect that Nature must almost wonder whether they are not indeed of her own handiwork. Of each species represented, there is shown not only the natural appearance and characteristics of the flower, of the leaves, stem. etc, but also such details as are important for the proper understanding of its fundamental structure and its place...
...with the presentation of A. D. Gordon's new American comedy in three acts, "Is Marriage a failure?" It is an effective protest against illti-med interference by father-in-law and mother-in-law in the domestic economies of young married life. The comedy abounds in the heartiest kind of fun. The pathos is all in one scene, when Mr. Robson writes a manly letter of farewell to his young wife, whose overdose of father and mother has brought about a senseless and cruel separation. Again Mr. Robson shows his versatility wins "the tribute of a falling tear." Throughout...
...gratitude which we all owe to the New York Harvard Club for the kind manner in which they entertained our eleven can hardly be told too strongly. It is not a little flattering and encouraging to young men to be congratulated so heartily by men of whom not a few have grown old in reputation for more substantial than athletic reputation. The encouragement to hard work and unflinching purpose, as well as the assurance from such a source, that the cause in which their efforts are expended neither is nor ought to be despised by the best...
...season of the year has come when one is obliged to wear outer wrappings of one kind or another on the way to one's lectures, but what to do with these garments when one has arrived at the lecture room is often a puzzie. There are very few rooms where there is any chance to hang up coats and hats; the result is that a man has to sit beside his damp clothing throughout an hour, much to the discomfort of both himself and those about him. We see no reason why, in the smaller rooms at least, suitable...
...impossible that the sight of a game of this kind by a large number of students might lead to the introduction of the sport at Harvard...