Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Adams, knighted in 1925 for his services of education in various English universities, explained that in England the university and its college are entirely different in their functions, finances and derivation. The college of an English university, such as Christ's College at Oxford, was originally a sort of club, where students ate and slept. In the course of time teachers became associated with the various colleges, and a separate organization developed. Since these teachers, or dons did not give regular courses or lectures, the tutorial system developed...
America needs a king to do this sort of thing. A king, even a little mouselike man like King George, is not only a decorative but a useful piece of furniture. His personal inconsequence is relieved by gold braid, and medals; he is an artist at laying cornerstones and opening exhibitions, leaving the Prime Minister to govern. He does not have to reward Babbits with the use of the Marines; he can make them peers with opposition from none but the House of Lords--a simpler and cheaper process. And Americans are great royalty lovers. They will greet a queen...
Other N. Y. Newspapers. The "regular" newspapers were like urchins sliding down an icy sidewalk who suddenly behold a garbage pail at the bottom of the hill. Having filled their columns with the same sort of thing before, they now found it too late to stop. The tabloids, moreover, had made of the Brownings "news" which newspapers could not, they felt, afford to omit. The Hearst Journal was willing enough, nay, eager, to rush its leading staff members to the trial, including saccharine Nell Brinkley who discovered a "lesson to mothers" for the front page. But the editor...
...annual convention of the National Association of Merchant Tailors of America, assembled at Memphis, Tenn., males were told what not to wear: light tan or lemon-colored shoes, spats with tan shoes, top hats with tuxedos, bright colored hats and overcoats with any sort of evening clothes, soft collars in the city in non-summer months...
...ignorance which does enshroud the whole affair in Cambridge, the situation should certainly be remedied in the future. In any case, no contribution should be made by the Student Council until more is known. To foster an international consciousness in the minds of American students and some sort of intelligent understanding and cooperation between them and students of foreign nations is too worthy an ambition to be defeated by ineffective organizations or by the prejudices of religious missionaries...