Word: sort
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...mean, that my assistant is intimately acquainted with men in the Department, has worked under them for years, knows through their view, and the importance they attach to them, and is therefore in an excellent position to prepare men for their examinations. As it is experience of this sort which makes the professional tutor superior to the amateur, and causes men to demand his services, I think I have a right to advertise that merit. Sincerely yours, M. LE N. KING...
...average college would be utterly different in kind from Harvard's. The Harvard examinations in Greek and Latin, for instance, are based on sight work and those in geometry on originals; between examinations on text-books and examinations such as these there can be no compromise, for one sort represents the mastery of a book, the other the mastery of a subject. This concrete example, applying to one or two studies in Harvard, applies in its general moral to all studies at all colleges. The entrance examinations of a college cannot be merged with those of another, unless the whole...
...Boat Race," a bit of vivid reminiscence of which the title tells the substance; and "Rosinante," a brutal tale which portrays fairly well the state of mind of a lonesome man in the wilderness. In these four stories the touch of amateurishness, so common in work of this sort, is conspicuously absent. The other four stories, while unworthy of special mention, are well up to the standard...
From recent investigations carried on by the National Board of Education, it bas been found that one out of every forty college graduates now living has attained recognized distinction of some sort in the country; and that one in every ten thousand, who have not received the benefit of higher education, has attained similar success. The classification of 15,138 conspicuous Americans whose names appear in Appleton's Encyclopaedia of American Biography shows the following result: College Graduates. From Academies. Non College Percentage of College Men. Scientists, 341 25 164 64.30 Educators, 625 42 345 61.76 Clergymen...
...Senior class of Harvard College wishes to extend to your its sympathy in your sorrow at the death of your son Ransom. He was the sort of man that fellows instinctively trusted and confided in--perfectly unseltish, and loyal to his friends, and his own ideals. CHARLES F. C. ARENSBERG, HAROLD W. FRENCH, LAWRENCE S. JACKSON, JAMES LAWRENCE, JR., WM. T. REID...