Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This burlesque was one of the most successful things of the kind given in Vassar for a long time. The parodies on the principal songs of the Mikado were all of them clever, that on Ko Ko's song, "I've got him on the list," especially...
Birds, insects and snails, he continued, do not work gratuitously, being either allured by food, warmth or shelter. They enter flowers either for these purposes, or for that of depositing their eggs. Flowers are peculiarly adapted for various kinds of insect propagation; gnats taking some of the long tubular ones, and being restrained by a kind of a trap till their work is finished. Bees and balancing flies are fond of tubular flowers. Moths fertilize Orchids, carrying pollen balls clinging to their tongue or eyes. Humming-birds attack long necked flowers like the Trumpet Vine. Flowers allure these animal friends...
...were so kind as to usher at the last meeting are requested to usher again on Saturday, or notify F. Remington, 52 Brattle St., if they are unable to do so. They will take the same positions, and must be at the gymnasium...
...thing have acted as I have described, out of pure thoughtlessness, - at any rate, such is to be hoped - and with no intention of infringing upon the rights of their fellow students. But if, by some chance, their conduct is guided by other motives, - motives of an improper kind, it is well to let them know that college opinion justly condemns such acts as theirs, under the name of petty school-boy tricks...
...Page's arguments, however, Mr. Bourne is justified in opposing, and he does it in a manner wholly befitting a gentleman and loyal graduate of Yale. His loyalty is of the "true blue" kind, - a kind which seems hardly as common now as it did twenty or even ten years...