Word: sort
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...studies. To retain our intercollegiate contests it is essential that the faculty be shown that sports do not hinder college studies. Coach Pieper also emphasized the fact that every place on baseball teams is open to the best man, and every position will be filled only after the keenest sort of competition...
...both in character-drawing and in his ability to sustain the scenes; but in the son's brief interim of idiocy, which involves an unscrupulous actress and her vulgar but honest husband, there is an undue amount of melodrama, even cruelty. For blind idealizing, even of the pertinacious, youthful sort, can readily be shattered without recourse to the more than bromidic--the bromidiac -- near-brilliant pink-shirt-stud. The other story in this number, "The Woman Who Wasn't," is no more nor less than it pretends to be--a quasi tragedy growing out of a purely physical situation...
...humiliating to have to confess that this sort of thing goes on constantly, though not, I am inclined to believe, as extensively as in some other libraries. The only force that can stop it is the force of public opinion and the determination on the part of the great body of students who are fair-minded gentlemen, that it shall not be winked at or even permitted among those whom they know...
...cool reception which some extensions of courtesy have met with at the hands of certain visiting teams, have tended to make the entertainment of these teams a very uncertain quantity. It is true that the size of Harvard and the diversity of interests here render impossible the sort of a reception which a smaller college could offer; but the present condition of affairs is due rather to irresponsibility of managers and lack of well-directed assistance than to any fundamental fault...
...good reasons for delaying their decision, but we imagine that more have no good excuse, and are merely waiting because they are unwilling to commit themselves to anything so far in advance. Many of these are men who would naturally be relied upon to support an affair of this sort, and who could do much toward making the dance a success. The time for receiving applications has been extended to Saturday, but even with the added time there will probably be many delinquents. Each individual thinks that one late applicant more or less will make little difference...