Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...United States is the only great nation that has not some provision of this sort...
...attention of a class of men who now seldom have an opportunity for a social gathering. It is right that questions of the hour should be discussed, so that each class may find out what are the lines of thought of the other class. All men interested in this sort of thing will be rejoiced to get this opportunity to help...
...writing, has a kind regard for the feelings of his fellow man, and nothing happens to interrupt the thought of the workers; in this kind, it is a man's own fault if he doesn't do himself justice, unless he is abnormally nervous. In the other sort, the kind regard for the f. f. m. is not so apparent. The gentlemen who are present but not writing, wander about and give you the annoying impression that they are reading over your shoulder; or they rattle newspapers; or some one comes in and tells one of them a story...
...have suggested that those students who have an acquaintance with any newspaper men in the country send to these friends a marked copy of the article, with a request that its contents be noticed in the columns of the paper. The newspapers are generally very willing to do this sort of thing, and through their medium better than any other, the Association can make the public thoroughly acquainted with "Harvard's Better Self...
...their respective institutions. They take a real interest in keeping up with educational advances, and each man is anxious to help the governing body of his college in the effort to raise the standard. Harvard graduates do not show the same zeal. They appear to be in a sort of lethargic condition, unable to express themselves except on some occasion of unusual moment. They seem to imagine that all personal duty toward the University ceased with the hour in which they got their degrees, and that they are no longer called upon to give opinions on matters of college policy...