Word: sort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meet there representatives from all European nations. The city abounds in dogs, which act as the scavengers of the place. The houses are huddled together, small and badly ventilated. They are built of stone and have few windows. The roofs are flat and covered with a sort of cement which is water-proof. The richer natives have houses with tiled roofs. The soldiers of the city are poorly fed and badly clothed, and are of a dull, stolid appearance. The heat in summer is excessive and particularly severe on the Europeans, who generally retire to villas on Mount Lebanon, which...
Picking out a freshman crew is a different sort of thing from that of an upper-class crew. The men are so often undeveloped, and entirely new to this kind of thing that, without knowing their strength and endurance, it is hard to tell what to do with them. Then, too, besides being ignorant of the physical capabilities of the men, the captain and coach are, as a rule, unacquainted with their dispositions and tendencies-qualities which are as essential to a good oar as are the physical ones. On the whole the best thing a new man can show...
...hold that a loving familiarity with our own literature is of much greater worth as education and cultivation than all else that the colleges teach or can teach, and we rejoice in the courage shown by Harvard College in laying aside academic traditions and seeking to give some sort of recognition to the truth that the language of Shakespeare and Milton and Hawthorne and Irving, and the literature of that language, are as worthy subjects of study as the Latin or the Greek...
...already foreseen the advantage of this by securing the services of a person, who is thoroughly competent to deal with the minor details and intricacies of the large daily publications, to give a series of lectures on that subject. A course of this kind would tend to be a sort of stepping-stone for those who intend to make journalism their profession, from the inferior to the superior grades of newspaper work. Mr. Pulitzer, of the New York World, is a strong advocate of the formation of a college chair of journalism, believing that by this means a stronger inducement...
...sure of disgrace. Our college is I fear, not exactly such a place. To say the least, it is too large and incoherent. A new variety of club would, it seems to me, be a more promising field than the college at large for planting crops of this new sort. Club opinion is one of the greatest forces in the world, a force that no one can afford to despise...