Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...naught of the kind is the Tutor's mind...
...become the fashion of late years for our large city newspapers to treat their less pretentious neighbors of the country with a kind of complacent disdain. We frequently see in them sharp hits against their plodding contemporaries, for commonplace and awkward expressions, and general lack of brilliancy. Though this criticism is to a large extent just, there is one matter in which our great metropolitan journals need to look to themselves. It is indeed a fault which is exceedingly prevalent in the highest class of our newspapers. I refer to the continual use of certain words and phrases, perhaps rather...
...Madisonensis contains one of those crude articles on Education and Common Sense, a kind with which the college press is much burdened. Two columns are devoted to a wholesale condemnation of the hard student. The author labors under the impression that well-trained, well-educated men are not wanted, and he amuses himself by applying to them such adjectives as fossilized and unconditional. Further, he evidently has recently attended Van Amburgh's Circus, for he favors us with a long discussion of Hannibal's tricks. To compare Hannibal with "rank" men is certainly original; but to apologize for Hannibal...
...conclude, in what we have said it has not been intended to slight the claims of the gymnasium, but simply to say a word for another kind of exercise, which is a favorite with many, but by others is looked on as of little importance...