Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate will give the same kind of, and equally good, matter. The support which a Monthly, if established, would have from the English Dept., would be given, we have reason to believe, to the "Advocate," if, instead of starting a new Monthly, the "Advocate should do the same work. The literary editorials, (entirely distinct from the other editorials), and bookreviews will receive as careful attention as they would in a Monthly. We shall try, probably, to have in each of our twenty numbers, an article from some one of the college instructors...
...controversies of this kind, it is easy to see that the student searching after the truth is often at fault. In the lectures, however, which we have recently heard on the controversy, their faults have been reduced to a minimum, and the students of the university have had a fair opportunity of judging of the relative merits of the arguments advanced by Prof. Thompson, and Mr. Godkin...
...small box underground, hardly any larger than our rowing room; apparatus of every kind is strewn around in graceful confusion; and amid a litter of clubs, dumb bells, and c., sits the famous crew. There is a pair of parallel pars at the end of the boat, and the stroke is always in great danger of being kicked in the head and having his eye-glass disarranged. The chest-weights take up one side of the room, and when in use, the men on the flying rings have to stand aside. In fact, there is so very little room anywhere...
...flocking to Harvardium, to take advantage of the culture and facilities of the place. Now it happened that the members of the Facultas received very meagre salaries for their arduous and valuable services, while the Board consisted of men who were either very wealthy, or lived on fame-a kind of ambrosial fruit, which was said to possess peculiar properties, and insured the fortunate eater happiness and sustenance...
There is a demand on the part of many students, who intend to make journalism a profession, for some kind an elective which will in a measure prepare them for their future life work. Already many other colleges, among them Cornell and Columbia, have securred the services of able journalists to deliver to the students, courses of lectures during the coming year. Let us hope that Harvard will not be behind her sisters in this respect, and that in our next elective pamphlet, we shall see the announcement that arrangements have been made either for a systematic course of study...