Word: kind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year, must enter largely into consideration when the programme of songs for each season is made out. A good club can undertake to learn some songs which would be out of the question with an inferior one; and "classics," if well rendered and varied with music of a lighter kind will never fail of appreciation from Harvard audience...
...lighter kind," as we have perhaps too vaguely termed it, there are two distinct varieties of songs upon which the Glee Club usually depends: First the old college songs, whose disuse our correspondent rightly laments; and secondly the songs, topical or otherwise, which have in most cases been written and set to music by Harvard men, usually undergraduates. For the lack of songs of this variety the College at large and not the Glee Club alone, is responsible. It is now a long time since there have been any very successful attempts in this line, and the lack of these...
Philadelphia, like every other large city, has its tale of grievance. Near the spot where in 1776 the bell rang out liberty to all the land, one sees today a curious kind of liberty. The state legislature is ruled by a boss, accepting or rejecting an amendment according as he nods or shakes his head. In Pennsylvania nobody can enter politics, unless he wears Mr. Quay's collar around his neck. Not long ago a gentleman went to the legislature to urge the passage of a bill. He was told that nothing could be done until the opinion...
...next evening refused to allow the compromise to be effected in this manner. This result was reached on Tuesday evening of last week. At the last moment certain prominent Harvard alumni in New York offered to write to Captain Thorne a letter urging him to write some kind of a letter to Captain Brewer, but this project was vetoed by the chairman of the Harvard Athletic Committee in a letter saying that he resented any interference by Harvard graduates, and that any arrangement for a game thus made would not be ratified. There the negotiations stopped. It is fair...
...spririted service of his fellow-men which his expected future residence and profession will be likely to call for or favor. No unfamiliarity with charities, no doubt as to his own capacity for such work, no lack of striking qualifications of peculiar talents, no doubt or uncertainty of any kind, need deter any student who feels the impulse that underlies this movement from calling upon the director...