Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...what Battelle did, so much as what he was to his friends and even mere acquaintances that makes his death such a blow to the college - his memory so tender. Battelle's nature was essentially lovable. Unusually kind and sympathetic, invariably courteous and considerate of others, generous in thought and action, keenly sensitive, and serene even in the midst of the suffering which has been his lot for several years, - he was a thorough gentleman. And the memory of Harold Battelle will linger among his classmates until the class itself shall be no longer a memory...
...last annual report of the college by comparison with previous reports brings out some rather interesting and decidedly significant facts as to the relative amount of time spent in the college on different studies. Statistics of this kind cannot be exact. They are based on the number of men taking respective courses, either elected or prescribed, and on the estimate held by college authorities of these courses. They give, however, a fair notion of the tendencies developed; and from 1825, the date of the first report issued, show an uninterrupted progress from the ancient to the modern, and from realms...
...result of the Yale-Princeton game has its significance for Harvard. It means that Harvard will meet a different kind of a nine on Monday from that which it met on May 7. From yesterday's score it is very evident that at the first game between Harvard and Princeton something went wrong with the Princeton nine, and it is also evident that the fault, if it was a real fault not the mere result of an off day, has since been corrected. Harvard will have no such easy victory on Decoration Day as many have been sanguine enough...
...Patience" are also by him. A fifth poem has also been ascribed to him, but there is no real proof that it is his. The date of the poem is probably about the sixties or seventies of the 14th century. The poem is superior to any other of its kind in the English language. The plot is clear and the action is well managed. There is no padding. The great theme of all four of the author's poems is cleanness, appearing in "Gawain and the Green Knight," in Gawain's resistance to the temptations of the knight's wife...
...Garland has presented to Harvard a mineralogical collection of 8 uncut gems, each the finest of its kind. Among them are a giant crystal of emerald and a diamond of perfect octahedral form and of great size. Its weight is ninety carats...