Word: kind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...often tend to mislead the rising generation, who aim at the result, but do not place a just value on the means by which such a result is obtained. Daniel Webster did not become great by merely imitating some one else. He had great gifts of a certain kind, and used them to the full; but the power to impress other men does not depend on girth, or stature, or avoirdupois. Napoleon and Nelson, Garrick and Kean, were little men, yet did not their individualities find suitable means of expression, each in its proper fashion? Just so may that...
...committee earnestly request that there be no cheering and no demonstration of any kind beyond what is usual at a performance of this character...
...club is now in excellent condition, and, since new members in the University are probably not well acquainted with its advantages, we wish to state to what membership entitles the students. The boat house is said to be the most costly and the best equipped of its kind in New England; there is a large number of canoes, wherries, and shells, ample locker room, and hot and cold shower baths...
...Cornell Navy's new launch, which it is expected will be finished by May 1, is to be one of the best of its kind in the country. The launch is 60 feet long, 9 feet beam and is to be fitted with compound engines which will attain a maximum speed of 16 miles an hour. The total cost of the launch will be about...
...Camera Club exhibit, which will be closed tonight, is a highly praise-worthy affair. Nothing of the kind which has been seen in this vicinity for a considerable length of time has been superior to it. The exhibit not only eclipses all previous efforts of the Camera Club itself, and of all similar clubs in Cambridge, but it is, by competent photograph and art critics who are not connected with the University in any way, pronounced to be in no way inferior to the exhibits of the Boston Camera Club...