Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...library which will be placed in the new building is devoted to the classification of the flowering plants and ferns and is thought to be one of the best of its kind in America, containing something over 20,000 volumes and pamphlets...
Here at Harvard nothing of the kind has been attempted. Mr. Garcelon's class in general athletics for Freshmen is a step in the right direction, but since it is not compulsory its benefits are confined to some thirty or forty men, who undoubtedly would have taken regular exercise without this class...
Concentration in a field of distinction does not oblige a student to try for any kind of distinction. Additional work and high marks would be necessary for that; and often there are special examinations. To get distinction by doing this additional work is good, but a student may concentrate without going so far. CHARLES P. PARKER...
...been such a poor showing as has been made this spring. Instead of the number of football candidates increasing, as the practice goes on, it is decreasing. Tuesday there were about 35 men out and yesterday there were barely enough men to make two teams. Now how can any kind of advancement in football be accomplished without even a working basis? Some men have perfectly good excuses for not being out, while others, and the majority in fact, do not appear just because of sheer laziness, or because they have some insignificant engagement which could be perfectly well...
...been in charge of the construction of the 100-inch reflecting telescope at the Carnegie Solar Observatory, which is on the top of Mt. Wilson, 6.00 feet above the sea. He cast the famous 60-inch telescopic mirror at the observatory, which is the largest of its kind in the world. Many of the photographs which will be shown this evening were taken with the aid of this mirror...