Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three representative speakers of my childhood there were visible two or three things which are not to be found now. The old type of sonorous oratory has almost gone. In those days men thought they must speak in a sort of architectural way. There was something put upon the speech. It was not sure that everything lay in the speech itself...
After all, the remedy for the mismanagement of Memorial lies in the students' own hands. The trouble has always been that its members have taken Memorial fare too much as a matter of course,- a sort of necessary evil, forgetting that they belong to a co-operative organization which chooses its own directors and which can remove its steward for sufficient reason...
...complaints come in that students are crowded out of Professor Moore's lectures by the inconsiderate army of Cambridge men and women. If these people, so ready to rage and roar at any disturbance of their piece by students, cannot be managed by the ordinary methods, officials of some sort should be provided to keep them out of the reserved sections...
...think that the time has come when the whole College should unite in an endeavor to put a stop to such disturbances and to relieve the College of the scandal which they cause. We, therefore, promise to refrain from the use of firearms and explosives of any sort, either in celebrations of athletic victories or at any other time, and to do our utmost to discourage and prevent the use of such explosives during the remainder of our College course...
...year the New England Fish Commission, in recognition of past services, has given a room on the wharf to the association. During the past weeks this room has been furnished with chairs and tables and provided with papers, periodicals, games, etc., the object being to provide a plain, attractive sort of club room for the fishermen. From time to time it is proposed to have informal entertainments of one kind or another, music, smoke talks, or stereopticon views. There will be no religious services conducted in this room except on Sunday mornings, when the services of the past few years...