Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-The graduate of West Point rarely speaks of the Military Academy as his alma mater: for alma means kind, gracious, benign, and a mother is tender and indulgent. The Military Academy has nothing of the university in either its discipline or its course of studies. Everything is made subordinate to the one purpose, that its graduates may be able engineers and soldiers that are trained to obey. The necessary hardships are such that few would prefer the necessities of West Point to the luxuries of Sing Sing, did not each one keep in mind the happy time...
...turn trembles before the august second class man, glad to receive his notice, even though he call him but an Ex-Plebe. Every one who knows nothing about it, imagines that hazing at West Point is something terrible. As a matter of fact. force, or physical violence of any kind is never used, and the basis of all the "hazing" is merely a systematic sort of subbing...
...newspaper; and the change in the character of our periodicals does not seem to have proved beneficial to the literary training of contributors. The contributor to the magazine was put upon his metal to write the best essay or criticism in his power. It was in work of this kind that such men as Edward Everett, Cornelius C. Felton, J. O. Sargeaut, James Russell Lowell, Rufus King. James Freeman Clark, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others were trained...
...these days of varied amusements, and inter-collegiate sports, we can hardly appreciate the zest and spirit with which our predecessors entered into an affair of this kind, certainly setting us an example which could be followed with great profit...
...Hilton has promised to give to Leavitt and Pierce, one sample of each kind of coins found while excavating for Mr. Hilton's new building. They will soon be on exhibition in their window...