Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...remedy this difficulty there should be some sort of library for undergraduate records, preferably in the Union. These could be collected and cared for by some permanent attendant, or by some man or committee appointed each year. The value of such a storehouse of valuable information will doubtless be imperfectly appreciated by the men who possess it, but if some organization assures its preservation and its accessibility, it will be invaluable to members of future classes...
...other plays of the period, "Bartholomew Fair", contains many references to contemporary writers and playwrights, and the customary humorous flings at the Puritans and other strict sects. Though there is a fair plot to the play, it depends for its effect mainly on its humor and burlesque, of the sort common at country fairs in early England...
...manager give rise to one serious objection. No defeated candidate can feel dissatisfied if he is beaten by a man who has proved more efficient, but if he himself has been clearly in the lead in the actual competition and is defeated because he is not the sort of a man who would be popular with the players or represent the University creditably, his work seems worse than useless...
...open to make-up; football committees are as open to fickle graduates opinion as the captain. It may be best for one of these bodies to take the steps leading to the establishment and continuance of a consistent policy. But what we need most is patience--not the sort which endeavors to smooth over a defeat and immediately tries a new coach as a drastic remedy, but the patience which fixes its support upon one man or body of men and backs them until they win. Only the most strong-minded committee or captain can survive the attacks resulting from...
...early condition of negative obedience, and its later phase of positive service. In the school of obedience we get the training for out later period of service. But this obedience must not be mere acquiescence, but whole-souled acceptance of the judgment of another. In later life this sort of obedience merges insensibly into the power of command...