Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...companions, astonished by his strange foreknowledge of events, come to regard him as a sort of unholy ghost. The girl whom he knows his ancestor did marry turns away from him in fear and, tragically, he finds himself falling in love with her sister. This affair is ill-fated even though the lovely Helen knows of Peter's long journey through the years and, like him, perceives that the veils of Time are thin. She is unwilling to see him suffer in an age ill-adapted to his experience, so back he goes to his own century to fondle Helen...
...suggest this because every V. C. that I have ever talked to always dishes up some explanation of this sort to account for his peculiar conduct, whether by land or sea, by air or under ground. ... I need not say that I would be proud to be of this company...
Evidently the Wellesley girl is a sort of golden mean. Students are familiar with the studious Vassar girl, the social Smith type, and the athletic maiden of Bryn Mawr. Perhaps the explanation for the number of letters which travel from Harvard to Wellesley every day is explained by the fact that the Wellesley girl is near at hand. Or perhaps she is, as has been suggested above, the happy combination of the qualities of students at the three other leading feminine colleges of the north...
...administration. The only real difficulty presented by the present separation of the two fields is the lack of sympathy sometimes displayed by the extreme supporters of each camp. But, here at Harvard at least, it is only the extreme academist who willfully penalizes his students because they value the sort of development to be found on the athletic field or the College musical clubs. And conversely, the undergraduate managers of extra curricular activities are usually more pleased than otherwise at finding Dean's list men in their organizations. It is true that some men in the throes of a particularly...
...other hand, if college credit, and therefore, reduction in course work, were allowed for participation in extracurricular work some sort of direction and management of this work would necessarily have to be done by the College office. Besides bringing the College authorities into active participation in fields for which they are fundamentally unfitted, such a course would greatly reduce the opportunities for individual initiative and spontaneous cooperation now offered to the undergraduate...