Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been founded on a rumor which has been going the rounds of newspapers in the West that Harvard was suffering from an epidemic of scarlet fever and was liable any day to close her gates for an indefinite period. This report started, of course, as most rumors of the kind do, from some careless remark, or was built by the newspapers into an elaborate story from the simple fact that about a month ago there was one case of scarlet fever in college. We have it on authority that there is not a single case of serious illness in Harvard...
...Kneisel Quartette will give three concerts in Brattle Hall, Cambridge, on Wednesday evening, March 21, and Tuesday evenings, April 3 and 24. The subscription list is now open at Sever's bookstore; the price of subscriptions will be three dollars each. These concerts are the best things of the kind in this section of the country and doubtless many of the students will be glad to attend them...
...university for women is soon to be established in Germany. It will be the firs of its kind in that country...
...library of the University of Chicago has recently received 4,200 volumes of the annals, debates and records of Congress, the most complete set of its kind, it is claimed, which is in existence. Dr. J. Lawrence Laughlin, Professor of Political Economy, purchased the collection in Washington, in the name of the University, for five thousand dollars. The nucleus of the collection was made by Senator Barnum of Connecticut, who succeeded in obtaining a complete set of the first fifteen Congresses. Of all publications made by the government, these are the most rare; a complete set is not even possessed...
...good deal of talking by the proctors and much more moving about than seemed necessary. It was perfectly plainly a disturbance to several men. We realize that some movement is necessary and that some talking may be. It is but fair to demand, however, that everything of the kind not absolutely necessary be dispensed with...