Word: sort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston papers is can only be conjectured. It is well known that most of the reporters of college affairs are college graduates. The opinion has been advanced that the spirit shown in these accounts of games is simply a manifestation of the old complaint, Harvard indifference - this time a sort of postgraduate indifference...
...were making a short address to some philosophic convention. Another student was called and told to take the next topic. He proceeded in the addressive style, as had his classmate, and so others were called until all the appointed task had been recited. Then the class became a sort of debating society, in which the subject matter recited was the topic under consideration. All manner of puzzling and insinuative questions were put to the old professor for expounding, and he expounded each and every one to the satisfaction of all. In this way the interest of all was kept...
...going to submit the question? It might be done by petition, or better, if some member of the faculty would kindly consent to confer with the railroad officials. For the solicitation of the faculty, in behalf of the students, would undoubtedly have more influence, in a matter of this sort than the students could have for themselves. By this means, regular students rates might be secured, and the question finally settled to the advantage...
...classes are now fully organized. The most important organization, that of the senior class, is as follows: President, Herbert Livingston Satterlee; vice president, Eberhard Lamest Pupke; secretary, Augustus Dickerson Baker; treasurer, George Henry Barnes; historian, Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson. The seniors are trying to determine what sort of an entertainment to give during the winter. The class is about equally divided for a social and a literary entertainment. The outcome of the whole affair will probably be a mixture of the two with not enough of either to make a success...
...possible within our colleges, an unwise thing is being done, cannot, we think, be admitted. Whatever of bad example may have been imported into our American collegiate system from the English universities, the encouragement of a high faith in physical education is not open to objections of this sort. It is not yet time for American colleges to discountenance athletic sports and physical education. The complaint that Germany makes is far too likely to become our own, rather than one of an opposite sort...