Word: sort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course, do not necessarily refer to the interior decorations and fixtures. Those are certainly tasty and appropriate, but he must be a very prosy visitor indeed, who climbs that long hill to study fine arts. The real arts of Lasell are of a finer and more wily sort than those which we students at Harvard book upon as "fine arts...
Every boy is not fit to be sent to college, because it is not every one for whom a college education is beneficial. Properly applied, a college training is a sort of polish that adheres only to material of fine grain. Culture does not adorn every nature, and, except with the wealthy, the expensiveness of a college course should plainly indicate an expectation of some substantial return. Money should not be wasted in turning basswood into clock work machinery.- (Educational Monthly...
...belong to any branch of learning-is denied to Modern Languages, and attributed exclusively to the classics and sciences. The result of this pre-possession against Modern Languages is, naturally enough, a verification of the general notion. Since nobody believes that mental discipline can be obtained from this sort of study, nobody either studies or teaches the subject in the proper way for getting such discipline. There are no such textbooks as there are in the other branches of study. For a scientific exposition in grammar and the nature of language in general, one goes to the classics rather than...
...purpose of forming another organization. A notice of this meeting could be circulated, and an opportunity thus offered for those interested to get together at an appointed time and place, and then to consider the advisability of accepting the offer of the present management. We hope something of the sort will be done, for we should regret to see the Art Club disappear. It is true that within late years it has not occupied the position it deserves, but we think that with a new and energetic management the present luke warmness will soon give way to a useful activity...
...games last year, "indicates a deplorable lowering of the general tone of college sentiment." These are golden words, and from them we gather encouragement for the cause of athletic reform. Not that we believe that Mr. Ripley reflects the general sentiment of Yale; but a little leaven of this sort introduced there can not but work some change...