Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...having entire confidence in their stroke, the boating men and the college generally believe thoroughly in the new style of boat and rigging used by them last year. It is said that the test of the boat was not made last year. They will therefore row in the same kind of boat, and the men will row in pairs. There have been some minor changes in the rigging, but practically it remains the same. The belief was so general last year that the race was lost through the bad steering of the coxswain, and the feeling against...
...ever been subjected to the moral influence of his teachers; he stands entirely alone, proud of his independence, which he interprets as strength, and is anxious to prove by action. Now he is confronted by the double task of learning something at the university and earning some kind of living. With great exertion he succeeds in giving a few private lessons, which perhaps pay for his dinners. For lodgings, fuel, and all the rest his only hope lies in a scholarship. He does his utmost to obtain it, and if successful he has at least enough to keep him from...
...young members of some of these fraternities, the stranger receives no answer at all. He probably is some-what astonished that a natural and civil inquiry as to the significance of a conspicuous and quite peculiar decoration is met with the rebuke implied in blank silence. It is a kind of response which he finds it hard to reconcile with ordinary standards of civility. To put on a peculiar, if not grotesque, badge or decoration which inevitably challenges inquiry as to its meaning-a natural and proper inquiry on the part of an acquaintance-and then to be dumb when...
...Higginson related a humorous anecdote at his recent lecture, in illustration of the theory which many persons hold, that a narcotic of some kind is necessary for every one. While Mr. Higginson was travelling along the border of Kansas, a cattle ranger came through the cars, anxiously inquiring of every passenger whether they had any tobacco. All returned a negative answer, and, when at last the man reached Mr. Higginson, he was almost in despair. "You haven't got any tobacco 'round you?" he queried, in a pathetic tone. "No," was the reply...
...regard to the kind of influence exerted by the various clubs of alumni, the Magazine says: "The life and influence of the college is thus set to radiating continuously throughout the country in a new and powerful way heretofore unknown. Reunions are held, reinforced and vitalized anew by visits of committees of genial and eloquent professors. Bright and promising young students in the community are made the subjects of a splendid college missionary interest. The charm of the spirit of this particular college or that is made to enter delightfully into their minds. They begin to grow to the college...