Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...profusion of rowing clothes which is spoken of, consists of a cap, shirt, sweater, and a pair of a cap, shirt, sweater, and a pair of tights for each man. The H. A. A. has been kind enough to present the crew with shirts and caps, so that all that the H. U. B. C. has provided consists of the sweaters and tights, which does not seem a very profuse allowance for nine months...
...crew has been doing very good work lately, although it is deprived of the important help and advice of Col. Bancroft, which all freshmen crews have had for the past five years. The upper classmen have been very kind in their efforts to help the crew, Messrs. Mumford and Borland especially, being untiring in their efforts. The crew now rows six hundred strokes a day, using the sliding seats. Porter is still stroking, and bids fair to be a capital man for the place. The crew runs every day on North Avenue, and pulls the chest weights three times...
...young men of to-day, and especially the young men in large cities, are not, by nature and example, fitted for tests of this kind. They are seldom, if ever ready to work for the mere love of work. Instead of being taught how to gloss over an education, received as it is in an unwilling spirit, and carried on during a season of balls, operas, and theatres, skating rinks, etc., in a perfunctory manner, it is the duty of educators to speak out plainly, and to denounce everything that tends to render diplomas worthless, and bring colleges into contempt...
...library of Petrarchian and Icelandic literature collected by Prof. Fiske of Cornell, is one of the finest of its kind in this country...
...lake. Entering, we passed through the long hall, and were shown to our dressing room from which we went to the reception, held in the corridor on the second floor. The corridors were filled with members of the Faculty, juniors, and their guests. We first drank tea with the kind friend who invited us, and we were then taken through the upper part of the building. We passed up the stairs, through the halls. Elegant pictures adorned the walls, statuary and tropical plants were frequently seen, and, indeed, everything was beautiful...