Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...reference is to the top of the Fifth avenue buses, and the heart of the matter is tobacco. Henceforth it is not to be the open top, nor quite the closed top, but a sort of semi-hemi-preferential top with the two left-hand seats and the three right-hand seats open to smokers--if no one else wants them first. The Fifth Avenue Coach Company did not take action until after a plebiscite among its passengers. The opinions of those who ride on the buses because they can smoke on the upper deck, and the opinions of those...
...whole thing depends upon what sort of a committee the chairman has to help him. Under the present system, all the responsibility rests with him, and his assistants are often inclined to be lax and indifferent. Often it is almost as much trouble to see that they are doing their work properly as it would be for him to do it himself. Of course this varies with the various committees, but the average Senior has no idea of what he is electing these seven men for, and so they usually choose men who are tied up with athletics during...
Heliotropic Washington bends toward Senator Harding, and the staid Senate is fluttered. Never before has a President been selected from its membership, and its experts on procedure thumb in vain the records to get instruction as to the proper sort of reception...
...University and the Graduate Schools, of men connected with the University for years or only a short time, and of many persons who though but indirectly connected or merely interested friends, have contributed to the Endowment Fund. I look upon the Undergraduate Endowment Fund campaign: first, as a sort of roll call to determine the positive cooperation of all Harvard men in the maintenance of their University, and then, as a means of raising funds to help in this work...
...national indoor sport, is not more than 25 years old. 'Students of the game generally regard Professor James Naismith as the father of the game. He was a professor at the Spring field Young Men's Christian Association Training College at the time. His idea was to create some sort of a game for indoors that would correspond with football, but with the rougher elements of the great college game eliminated...