Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regulation length, thus preventing any skilful plays, as the contestants had all been practising in courts of the usual dimensions. The conduct of the crowd in hissing the tug-of-war team from the Institute of Technology, which was pulling against the Jamaica Plain Boat Club Team, showed the kind and fair spirit in which a mixed Boston crowd is apt to look on students in general; and we were consequently sorry when the Jamaicas proved the winners, although they pulled in beautiful form. We hope the sports will be more entertaining next year...
...would be the finest owned by any of the colleges, we confidently expected that Harvard had spent all that it would need, for this purpose, for some time to come. But it seems that our expectations are not to be realized. It is an undoubted fact, that the wrong kind of cinders was used in the original laying-out of the track, and the whole contract was carried out in a thoroughly unsatisfactory and careless way. A survey made last fall has shown, moreover, that the whole field has sunk somewhat - in places, as much as a foot. If this...
...accepted a kind invitation...
...only does no good, but does much harm. Complaint in general, and unreasonable complaint in particular, gives the student the reputation of a chronic grumbler, and such a reputation is a terrible barrier to the removal of objects of complaint. We have never known a case where a kind suggestion privately to an instructor did not produce the desired effect; while we do know of many cases where even reasonable requests were refused because they appeared in print as complaints. It is therefore to be wished that those who feel that their gall must be poured out should indeed pour...
...editors of the College papers will be invited to the ball on account of the kind criticisms which they have at different times passed upon the thoroughness of the work done by the janitors. The Floor Committee will wear brooms in their button-holes, and the matrons, taken from the best known of the goodies, will be distinguished by dusters at their belts. "Mr. Matthewsalah" who, it is thought, has acquired more grace in skipping than any of the other janitors, will lead the German...