Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...What kind of matter should be published...
...said that he considered the library in working power equal to the entire faculty of the university. Our library, although not the largest, is undoubtedly the best in the country both as regards the excellent character of the books in it and its management. Unlike most institutions of its kind the fact that it is large does not make it so full of red tape that it is impossible to feel at home in it. As far as is possible the individual wishes of each student are consulted by the librarian and his assistants, so that every student has almost...
Teacher: "Class in Geography, stand up. What is a strait?" Small boy (next to the foot): "A strait beats two pairs, three of a kind, and generally takes the pot-unless some fellow happens to have a cold deck slipped up his coat sleeve." Teacher: "Let us pray...
...laws, though now it is given to him in print. At that time, he was obliged to procure it for himself, and as paper was scarce, it is likely that the body of the pamphlet was sometimes handed down from one generation to another, and constituted a kind of transmittendum." This particular copy appears to have belonged to Jonathan Mitchell, a graduate of 1687, on his admission as a freshman...
...city college, from its position, is called to a very different kind of work from a similar institution situated in the country; for a large proportion of Columbia's graduates enter directly some one of the many lines of business activity which the metropolis affords them. In so cosmopolitan a centre as ours it needs no argument to demonstrate that the knowledge of the chief modern languages is a primal requisite; for, while from a purely practical standpoint it matters comparatively little to the banker, broker or merchant whether he has read Homer, or pursued a course in calculus...