Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Oberlin, the home of the truly good, finds time in the midst of its deadly strife with a corner drug store, to say a kind and cheering word for Eastern colleges. Now, is not the following from the Oberlin Review, really admirable and charitable? "Our Eastern exchanges are discussing the prejudice that exists in Western colleges against those in the East, and it becomes a question of interest to us whether it is not true that our notions of these Eastern institutions are not somewhat hazy, and whether we do not have an exaggerated idea of the freaks and follies...
...here, Oscar Wilde, you sing trash of the blankest-blank kind, and I know...
...ought to see the people stare at us. They would stop in the middle of the street and look at us as if we were so many living curiosities. I suppose they never saw such a breach of the social etiquette before. I had the queerest kind of a Christmas present. What do you suppose it was? I doubt if you can guess it, so I'll tell you. It was a promotion, in the shape of a crystal button, to the fifth rank. How is that for high! There are nine ranks...
...expected that a total abstinence basis will be found to be necessary. If it were to be a total abstinence society of the traditional ironclad, intolerant stamp, we should expect and deserve a tornado of criticism and opposition; but it is to be nothing of the kind. In justice, therefore, to those who wish to form the society; in justice, also, to those who might be disposed to criticise,-for no one would wish to criticise fellow-students through mere prejudice or misunderstanding-the following statement is made, showing that the society will exemplify that spirit of toleration and self...
...Harvard Register, of 1827, for example! There is to be found the freshness of sophomoric thought in all its glory; ideas and language that never halt; and as for self-consciousness and disingenuousness, not the least in the world; or, if any, of a most simple and taking kind. And if there appears, now and then, a little pedantry and almost "Western" heaviness, did not the discriminating editors of the Register show their good intentions and appreciation of the fit by adopting as their motto the classic phrase from Byron, "I won't philosophize and I will be read...