Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover has said: "These Acadians are a wonderful people and they love this Evangeline country of theirs with all their heart and soul. Very few speak English and they are as proud as the forefathers who settled the Sugar Bowl 200 years ago. We are finding it the toughest sort of a job to convince them that when they go to a concentration camp they do not become objects of charity. They stay behind until the flood is in sight and even then they hesitate to take to the high places...
...reasons for which Harvard, Yale and Princeton have failed to join in any Eastern "Big Ten" which might be formed are obviously not those of "a sort of superficial snobbery" as the Daily states. To accept such a presumption is to ignore entirely the whole shift in undergraduate attitude toward football and to base futile arguments on a threadbare theme. The Eastern Conference idea is acceptable and conceivable only in the degree in which it supports the recent rationalization of the sport. Certainly the Present regime of the western body is not toward that...
...award of traveling fellowships to graduate students to study abroad, in the venerable Universities of England or the equally alluring institutions of the continent, is a long established tradition among American Universities. Here at Harvard the keen competition for Rhodes Scholarships attests to the value placed on this sort of thing...
...specifications, with regard to both Chicago and Boston situations are far from proved by assertion. And it is, moreover, under this sort of treatment that the Sacco-Vanzetti case is becoming obscured while winning notoriety. The case has already established public relations with the defects of the Massachusetts judicial system, the standard of integrity maintained in the district attorney's office, theories of evidence, and labor agitation. It remained for the New Republic to allege that there is also a racial question at stake...
...these late days of specialization and of sport on a large scale, huge dope stories are turned out by highly paid experts on college crews and athletic crews of all kinds. Criticism is passed on sports and sportsmen in a perfunctory sort of way, but it remained for the sporting columnists of fifty years ago, in the college papers, to carry personal constructive criticism to its greatest extent...