Word: variousness
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...kitchen with a "new girl," as she expressed it, doing her best to explain in a short time the possibilities open to a connoisseur in the opening and decanting of ice-cream. Mrs. De Sorosis was telling in an excited manner to a bewildered Irish servant the various ways in which it was possible to get the cream out of the mould without getting the salt into it and without destroying the form in which the cream was moulded. Her instructions were received without visible signs of comprehension by the servant, and Mrs. Butterfield having agreed to slip down...
...cricket club will soon begin to play practice games with various local clubs. Matches will probably be played this spring with Columbia, Princeton, Trinity and the University of Pennsylvania...
...recent meeting of Princeton alumni at Cincinnati, one of the speakers, in comparing the various colleges of the country, said that Harvard was most distinguished in literature; Yale in learning; but that Princeton was most noted in public life...
...point of the Crimson's discussion of the college finances is excellently taken. It cannot be denied that, of late years, the interests of the college have been made to suffer for the benefit of the various departments. And yet, it is much easier to obtain contributions for the endowment of the professional schools than it is to secure support for the college itself. Although this institution is far more of a university now than ever before, on account of the growth and the increasing prosperity of these schools, there is now a danger arising lest she become less...
...tell them that it was not they; and then the Miscellany got mad because only the older girls went, ("older" means here, those who are "allowed to receive callers,") and says: "We wish that the author of the article could have heard the strong expressions of sorrow made to various members of the board by the older students; we think that she might have modified her views concerning what doubtless appears to her as an exceedingly witty and brilliant achievement...