Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from adequate to meet the wants of the students. If the library is improved according to the best plans now offered by the architects to the faculty and corporation, it will have a capacity of 2,000,000 volumes and will be one of the handsomest buildings of its kind in existence...
...recent number of Education has an interesting article upon the benefits which might be got from the study of Modern Languages, if it were only properly pursued at our schools and colleges. Just at present it is the fashion among educational people to set a low value on this kind of study. Facility in speaking two or more languages is admitted to be a desirable attainment, because of the practical uses to which the accomplishment may be put. It is recognized, too, that the study of Modern Languages is the only means of getting at the treasures locked...
...some are even more specific, and call it Africa. They have both a Plato and a Persephone down there. Great chaldrons may be seen, presumably filled with some strange liquid or concoction, to judge from the fearful rumbling boiling sound that comes forth. Bones and skeletons of every conceivable kind of animals are there; dark holes and passages, steam from unknown recesses, the clanking of iron, and the roaring of fires are everywhere met with. Indeed, what a place this is ! What a hall it is, with a lower world, our intermediate world, and an upper world, almost a little...
...king forbid us to read the newspapers if they contain notices of the sports of this band? If this be the case, our lost will indeed be an unhappy one." With this they all departed, each to his own home, saying in his heart, "Verily the gods are kind to us in that they have given us such a good king to reign over...
...find it practicable to play one or two of that master's. Since the number of concerts in Cambridge is only six, it is almost too bad that they should be entirely taken up with novelties; the Mendelssohn symphony of last night was the first standard work of the kind that has been heard here this year. The new things are interesting for a change but it seems desirable that the older and better known works should form the basis of our Sanders Theatre programmes...