Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...grasp any subject, whether history, philosophy, mathematics, or the languages, with wonderful accuracy and ease. His skill as an athlete needs no comment; it is enough to say that Harvard probably never had his equal in the ball field. Socially, he was one of the best of fellows. Kind, generous, honest, openhearted, he was loved by every one who knew him, and he was, perhaps, the best known man in college. His sudden and unexpected loss will be greatly felt by his many friends and admirers...
Though members are advised to make use of the present opportunity to exchange old books for new ones, the society assumes no responsibility as to the prices paid, or the kind of new books to be furnished. All such responsibility rests with the gentleman who is making the exchange. It is hoped that hereafter better arrangements may be made, by which the society, through the Inter-collegiate Book Exchange, will be able to furnish its members with many more secondhand text books than it has heretofore, and to find a better sale for such as are to be sold...
Though members are advised to make use of the present opportunity to exchange old books for new ones, the society assumes no responsibility as to the prices paid, or the kind of new books to be furnished. All such responsibility rests with the gentleman who is making the exchange. It is hoped that hereafter better arrangements may be made, by which the society, through the Inter-collegiate Book Exchange, will be able to furnish its members with many more secondhand text books than it has heretofore, and to find a better sale for such as are to be sold...
...small college. As in the case of most of the large English schools, all the governing power was first centered in the provost and masters, but this absolute rule was soon changed by an act of Parliament ; and now, in Eton, as in all other schools of its kind, the fellows must be chosen from Oxford, Cambridge, and the Royal Society...
...Rensselaer says of the new Medical School building, that "the task was to build a great square box, wholly of brick, with no ornamentation and with the necessity for floods of light in the interior. Yet there is beauty in the result-architectural beauty of the strictest kind, though no atom of that 'picturesqueness' which popular criticism falsely considers its equivalent." Of Sever Hall, the writer remarks, "that there is much more originality in its quiet success than in many more striking works, and that the introduction of the great round-arched doorway gives a grateful touch of piquancy...