Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...means of reforming the evils of the present examination system is to be welcomed. It is to be hoped that Harvard will soon see her way to adoption, wholly or in part, of this or some similar scheme. The schools at Exeter, at Quincy, and many others of this kind could certainly be trusted to pass only suitable candidates into the college. The change would be a desirable one and an experiment certainly worth trying...
...making the most of her gifts and making her defects as unnoticeable as possible, she subordinated the former to an exaggeration of the latter. Her husband had "struck oil" in Pennsylvania, and had then subsided into a submissive check-signer and reader of the daily papers, a mythical kind of power-behind-the-throne known as "Mrs. De Sorosis' husband...
...Yale freshman nine will have the same kind of uniforms as last year...
...Lasell Leaves speaks in rapturous terms of a "Spring, spring, beau - " But why she should prefer a spring beau to any other kind of a beau is not stated. But we have no doubt that a pearl-satin bow would prove just as satisfactory; or a bouquet; or even a Bo Peep spring bonnet...
...Miner has also been well received, and is considered a model of its kind. The editorial boards of the two papers, the Spectator and Acta, have been chosen as follows...