Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...superintendent in this respect have been increased by injudicious expressions on the part of members to friends and out siders, parading the advantages of the society, and the cheapness with which it supplies its members as compared with the higher charges of the retail dealers. Talk of this kind is to be regretted. It strengthens the impression that the society means to carry on a general competition with the retailers, and makes the friends and business acquaintances of the latter look unfavorably at the society. In this way it increases the difficulties of the superintendent in obtaining goods. The society...
...Chicago who is a college graduate, and can also converse in all the modern languages. He might, you know, be a college graduate and still be ignorant of French, German, etc. This conductor (and he is not, it would be safe to wager, the only one of his kind in the country) does not agree that his education has been of important service to him in his struggle for existence. When in need it did not secure for him a better place than that of car conductor, and as a car conductor it is no help...
...speaker at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences declared that it was his belief that a new species of the human race, by the propagation of deaf mutes of their own kind, is being developed...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON-Dear. Sirs : The following is clipped from Forest and Stream, Nov. 15th, and seems to be quite a sensible suggestion : "Harvard has a rifle and gun club. Princeton has something of the kind, and so has the University of Pennsylvania. Why can we not see a series of intercollegiate rifle, or clay pigeon matches ? When students graduate, they put away base-ball (unless they join the professionals), boating, foot-ball, and other like amusements ; but the collegian who learns to use the gun or rifle has acquired something that will last through his lifetime. The recreation...
...eleven is now settling down to the hardest kind of practice in preparation for the Thanksgiving game. Now is the time for the college to step forward and give them every possible encouragement and support to remove the depressing effects of the recent failure...