Need help with list sorting

Okay so previously, I attempted to sort of create a generic type of program. I did this by using typedef to define two vectors. One of structs and one of doubles. However when I changed the typedef from vectors to list within my program, and all else the same, it happened to fail on me when I attempted to sort the list.

The error gives me something about a reverse_iterator. I don't recall reversing any iterator in my code.

Here is my main code

Code:

int main(){
	typedef list<Student_info> students;

	students studs;
	Student_info record;
	string::size_type maxlen = 0;

	while(read(cin, record)){

		maxlen = max(maxlen, record.name.size());
		studs.push_back(record);
	}

                //problem is here!
	sort(studs.begin(), studs.end(), compare);

	for(students::iterator i = studs.begin(); i != studs.end(); ++i){

		cout << (*i).name << string(maxlen + 1 - (*i).name.size(), ' ');

		try{
			double final_grade = grade(*i);
			streamsize prec = cout.precision();
			cout << setprecision(3) << final_grade << setprecision(prec);
		}

		catch(domain_error e){
			cout << e.what();
		}
		cout << endl;
	}
	return 0;
}

Here is the source file with the compare function

Code:

bool compare(const Student_info& x, const Student_info& y){
	return x.name < y.name;
}

std::istream& read(std::istream& source, Student_info& student){
	source >> student.name >> student.midterm >> student.final;

	read_hw(source, student.hw);

	return source;
}


std::istream& read_hw(std::istream& source, homework& hw){
	double x;

	if(source){
		hw.clear();

	while(source >> x){
		hw.push_back(x);
	}

	source.clear();
	
	}

	return source;

}

Thank you for your help!

You cannot use sort() on a list because it doesn't support random access iterators. std::list has its own sort member function that you can use.