Word: sort
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have been taken from the Harvard Union. Some twenty-five volumes have already disappeared from the shelves, apparently never to return. If these thefts continue the Library Committee, being under obligations to protect the property in its charge, will be forced to insure itself against further outrages of the sort by steps that will be very disagreeable to the members of the Union at large. To keep a close watch on every man in the Library and to enforce the leaving of coats, bags, etc., outside would probably be an effective means. To close the shelves to free access...
...orator need for special explanation. The odist writes words to the metre of "Fair Harvard" and these words are sung to that tune at the close of the Class Day exercises. The ivy oration requires in the writer a fine vein of humor, of a more or less subtle sort...
...only does it imply the physical surroundings of man, but what is still more important, their effect upon his daily life and gradual development. In primitive times this development was dependent on the extent to which individuals and races were affected by the operation of natural laws, one sort of environment. In later times man has to a large extent been able to govern his own environment by artificial means...
...chief value of the camp system lies in the greater spirit that it infuses into the debates. But it has the further advantages of affording its members a taste of the sort of preparation that must be made for a University debate and also of making the men thoroughly acquainted with each other...
There are in this University, more able bodied, heavy men suitable for line positions on the football team than have thus far come out. It is the duty of every man of this sort, whether experienced or not, to present himself as a candidate at once...