Word: kinds
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...competed with or against a professional for any prize or where admission fee is charged; or who has not instructed, pursued, or assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises as a means of livelihood, or for gain or any emolument; or whose membership of any Athletic club of any kind was not brought about, or does not continue, because of any mutual understanding, expressed or implied, whereby his becoming or continuing a member of such a club would be of any becuniary benefit to him whatever, direct or indirect; and who shall in other and all respects conform...
Last year the society was very unfortunate in selecting for their theatricals the evening on which the Boylston Prize Speaking was held, but this year mistakes of that kind will be avoided if possible. Nothing has as yet been decided about the play for this year, excepting that one certainly will be given next spring sometime about the first...
...today as we hope and expect, a celebration will of course follow, and this is as it should be. But we must not rush forward blindly. If there are to be bonfires and fireworks, or indeedgeneral demonstrations of any kind, let them take place on the field where the victory was won, rather than on the street or in the college yard. Jarvis is far better in its facilities and its position, and we cannot afford to sun the gauntlet of the city authorities or to put our trees and college buildings in jeopardy. A little discretion may avert...
...York man has given $20,000 to Columbia to found a travelling scholarship for young architects. This is about the sixth scholarship of its kind in the United States...
...other new department is that o Anthropology, the first of its kind given in this country. Heretofore the term anthropology has been employed in this country, exclusively to denote that part of theological instruction which deals with the creation, fall and redemption of man. Scientific Anthropology, which this department is to teach, is entirely different from that: it is an empirical science based almost wholly upon careful field work among savages and primitive peoples. It embraces craniology, the minute study of savage languages, myths, religious rites and ceremonies, and the primitive industries, modes of warfare and habits of life...