Word: sort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...find in a recent exchange the introduction of a new sort of championship. Prizes are offered as follows: $10 for the best editorial from '87 editors; $10 for the best literary article contributed during the year '85-'86; $5 for the best poem contributed during the year '85-'86." The first thing notable is that poetry is at a discount, doubtless because the editors who offer the prize, wish to defend themselves, knowing too well that the "wild eyed" poets need little incentive to write. Ever since the world began, man has been inclined to force his thoughts into poetry...
...good looks, rapidity of living, and number and size and variety of bull-pups. All such are specialists. Not one of them is getting that for which he came to college, or that at least for which he ought to have come. Their specialism is of the most condemnable sort, and as specialists they themselves are to be most mercifully pitied...
...even a slight experience in college, provided, of course, he has not so closely locked the doors of his own being as to shut out all possible influence around him, must feel himself benefitted and elevated. Those benefits resulting directly from study or intellectual work of any sort are not here referred to. Their influences are more on the mind than on the self and the character...
...base. The facts of the case were that the third baseman of the Harvard, '88, team happened to be in the way of a Yale base runner, who, in retaliation in the most inexcusable way, kicked the Harvard man. We can say with truth that an incident of this sort has never happened before in Cambridge on college grounds between any two opposing nines, whether collegians or not. Under any circumstances, the action of the Yale man was entirely indefensible, and though the trouble seemed to be made up between the chief ones concerned, yet we think something more...
...must have observed, three tug-boats, the referee's boat and two others, passed ahead of '86 and '88 some distance from the finish. The inevitable result was that those two crews were very considerably impeded. Such a thing ought never to have been allowed. An interference of that sort might determine the order of the two last crews, which is not a matter of entire indifference. In this case it apparently did not have that effect, but such an interference must always have the effect of making it still harder for the crews who have lost and are doning...