Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...accustomed to decently artistic acting an English burlesque is as dull as a game of old maid. But, at the same time, to a man whose dramatic taste has not been educated it seems very amusing. And for my own part, instead of growing disgusted with people of this sort, I generally manage to be amused at their amusement, and to admire the pertinacity with which they insist upon enjoying the most monotonous of monotonous entertainments...
...occurred to me, and which may not prove impracticable. It is nothing less than the extension of the class festivities over the dreary waste of time which comes between the present Class Day and the present Commencement. If I am not misinformed, a Commemoration Week, or something of that sort, is the regular end of an English University course; and every day of that week is filled with appropriate exercises, - some of a literary kind, some of a social. I think that such an arrangement would be pleasant here. But as I have had no opportunity to consult the powers...
...some thing that he never did before. I remember that when I made my first independent railway journey - at the mature ago of twelve, - I indulged in the delights of a five-cent cigar, and felt horribly and horribly guilty for the next three days. A mater is a sort of colossal Mrs. Jellyby. She was so busy with the affairs of the outer world that she cannot find time to attend to the manners and morals of her children; and the natural consequence is that some of these children fall into the very objectionable practice of eating with their...
...adversity, and probably remembering another (Association' to which it belonged once upon a time, and the forlorn hope it was compelled to lead there by some precocious 'Western upstarts,' it politely declined the proffered honor." We are not called upon to defend ourselves from insinuations of this sort, even when they are thrown out by a paper which has for a motto, "Above all Sects is Truth." The words quoted speak for themselves, and those who read them will probably agree that the position of Cornell in matters of justice and courtesy does not correspond with the position its crews...
...these two clubs for the four best men to row in both races, but it is manifestly unfair, both to the candidates for the second crews, who are thus shut out, and to the other clubs, which do not think it consistent with their honor to do that sort of thing. It is to be hoped that some action will be taken, before the spring races, to prevent its being done again...