Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Considerable damage has been done already in the way of breaking glass, and a greater injury is threatened to apparatus of a valuable kind left near windows exposed to the stray balls. Of course the Faculty could deal with matter directly, and take steps to protect the property by regulations and penalties, but it greatly prefers to leave a matter of this kind to be righted by student action. Acting upon this preference, which I am sure you will be glad to justify, it requests the Athletic Association or its officers to take such steps as may make further action...
...attention to it. It is noticeable that this practice is in great part confined to those large courses which are taken almost exclusively by freshmen. We hope that by this time Ninety-three has gotten sufficiently over its newness to college life to take a warning of this kind in good part and to profit...
...traps are placed. Before long it is hoped to build a number of lockers so that the members will have a safe place in which to keep ammunition, cleaning tools, etc. When this is done the house will be as well arranged and as comfortable as any of its kind around Boston. Two bridges have been placed across the creeks leading to the house, so that the approach is now perfectly dry and easy. The house is only from twelve to fifteen minutes' walk from Harvard square, which makes the present range much more suitable than the one at Watertown...
...matters seem to be moving along but slowly with all four teams, and the seniors especially have been backward in bringing out good men. What all the classes really need is an infinite amount more of energy put into the work. Tug-of-war may not be the best kind of sport, but now that the classes have determined to have contests, they must show far more life than they have displayed...
...called cosmopolitan and provincial. The person who lives in the city is so used to a crowd that he is free from all selfconsciousness of manner, so used to the sight of misery that he is callous to it, so used to vice that he ignores it. This kind of man may make a good historian or a good philosopher because he has a perfectly fair frame of mind. Provincial people on the other hand are unused to the jar and noise of the city, wonder at strange sights, shudder at crime and are shocked by vice. They cannot look...