Word: sort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they have no claim to learn more than this. The impertinent comments on the matter that have appeared from time to time in the daily press have derived a manifest absurdity from their impertinence. It is a matter of congratulation that in the future opportunities for publicity of this sort are not likely to arise...
...reason why the book should not be composed of selections from the poetry of Harvard rather than from the columns of one paper. Harvard has always been well represented among college poets and her work has met with great success throughout the college world. A collection of this sort would be a pleasant sort of a book for every Harvard graduate and would serve more than any other one book could, to remind him of the spirit and life of his college days. We feel sure that a publisher could be obtained who would assume the responsibility of the work...
...noticeable that in the West the exercises and requirements of this sort are generally made of little or no importance in the practical work of the colleges. The University of Michigan offers no systematic religious training whatever, and much less compels any one to conform to any requirements for attendance at religious exercises. At Cornell we believe the same is true. It is a curious fact that these are the two most prominent examples of university co-education in this country. It may be that the fact is significant and that here may be found a cogent argument either...
...HERALD proposes to elect further members of its editorial board from the junior, sophomore and freshman classes. The editors would therefore be pleased to receive contributions of any sort suitable to the character of the paper from members of these classes. The choice will be made according to the quality and number of contributions...
...Yale they aim at and achieve all that is possible. The motto of Cambridge rejects the common sense of the classic maxim and pretends that omnia possumus omnes - that we can be scholars, and learned and wise and witty, and be oarsmen and runners and blacksmiths, and all that sort of thing...